David Kimball Anderson
BIOGRAPHY
David Kimball Anderson (b. 1946, Los Angeles) is a sculptor and multidisciplinary artist whose work bridges poetic materiality with deeply personal narrative. With a career spanning over five decades, Anderson’s practice has remained grounded in an enduring pursuit of simplicity, reverence, and aesthetic contemplation. Trained at the San Francisco Art Institute in the late 1960s, he studied under Bruce Nauman and James Reineking, and later apprenticed with influential sculptor Peter Voulkos.
Anderson has received three National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, and the SECA Award from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. His work has been exhibited widely, including at the Whitney Biennial, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and in numerous national and international solo exhibitions. His sculptures and drawings are held in major collections, including the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the San Antonio Museum of Art, and the Art in Embassies Program.
Now based in Santa Cruz, California, Anderson maintains a daily studio practice in a home compound shared with his writer wife, Lis Bensley.
artist statement
Across my forty-five years of studio work, I’ve remained committed to offering viewers a place for pause—an invitation to slow down and find themselves in the presence of beauty, simplicity, and quiet reflection. My practice explores the spaces between object and memory, form and feeling, and often includes elements of narrative that stem from personal encounters. These narratives are not prescriptions, but shared moments of meaning, carried in the materials and gestures of each work.
