World in Technicolor

Aly Ytterberg is a hard-edge, color-block artist from St. Louis, Missouri who finds inspiration in nature, rural landscapes, and the memories that people connect with different places. She works primarily with acrylic paint on canvas. Aly received her BFA from Washington University in St. Louis. She has since shown her work in local and regional shows as well as having pieces in collections across the United States in galleries, homes, corporations, residential buildings, and healthcare institutes. Aly calls herself a mother-artist. Her full-time job is being a stay-at-home-mom to her 7-year-old son and twin 4-year-old sons. She primarily paints during her sons’ rest time now and loves every minute of this crazy stage of life.

  

Aly’s work draws inspiration from photos taken while driving through or exploring within the American landscape. She’s drawn to old structures, linear fields, the human touch found in nature, and the stories that these places could tell if only they could talk. Aly is particularly intrigued by places that might normally be overlooked by those driving by or places that just kind of spark that little thought of having seen it before – a déjà vu moment.  There’s a purposeful ambiguity of exact location when she designs these landscapes and this is to allow the viewer’s imagination and memory bank to swirl. The paintings seem to tell different stories to everyone that sees them. A unique connection to every viewer.