Emily A. Anderson, an artist, lives in Red Bank, NJ. She has a bachelor's degree in painting from Rutgers University's Mason Gross School of the Arts and now studies with painter Grace Graupe-Pillard. Anderson has shown her work in local juried shows and can be seen at http://afonline.artistsspace.org/view_artist.php?aid=4118.
About this piece, she writes, "In 2000, five months into my marriage and 18 months free from narcotics, I tested positive for hepatitis C during a routine physical. Although my mid-20s had been dominated by heroin use, I emerged from the decade drug free and in the best physical shape of my life, feeling blessed to be given the chance to make a clean start. Since the diagnosis I have been consumed by fear regarding my future health and that of my family, and feel locked within the mistakes of my past. Dinnertime provides a visual narrative of this anxiety in the context of family life. The attached canvases, hanging as weights from the framework, read as a subtext to the main image." Contact artist: [email protected].