Sean Anderson 'Influential Pigment I'
12" x 12" x 12" fluorescent plexi, balsa, archival paper 2011
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'Influential Pigment I' (Detail)
Sean Anderson 'Shelter' (Pink Glow)
60" x 48" Oil and fluorescent enamel on canvas, 2011
Sean Anderson 'Influential Pigment II'
12" x 12" x 12" fluorescent plexi, balsa, archival paper 2011
Sean Anderson 'Blue Shelter'
20" x 16" Oil and fluorescent enamel on canvas, 2011
Sean Anderson 'Influential Pigment III'
24" x 24" x 24" fluorescent plexi, balsa, archival paper 2011
Sean Anderson 'Jungle Hut' (New Order)
48" x 36" Oil and fluorescent enamel on canvas, 2011
Sean Anderson 'Midnight Hut'
12" x 12" Oil and fluorescent enamel on canvas, 2011
Sean Anderson 'Hobson-Jobson'
48" x 48" Oil, fluorescent enamel and spray-paint on canvas, 2011
*ALL IMAGES ©SEAN ANDERSON 2011*
Sean Anderson’s uptake on the exotic landscape uses fluorescent auto enamel and oil paint to create a series of canvases that make the eyes squint at the consumer marketing aimed at the 3rd world. Beneath the flashing glow, the artist communicates to us the imperiled primitive beauty of the jungle and formidable Andes. Devoid of people, his series focuses on their handcrafted households suggesting the inhabitants fragility in the face of western economics.
Through the Influential Pigment series, Anderson seeks to create bridges between America and the 3rd world. In Hobson-Jobson, the artist makes reference to British rule of India superimposed on the Andes Mountains. This neatly transfers the arena of Western impacts on indigenous cultures to South America. Sean’s visual word play is here a bridge pointing out a sad repeat of history. Hobson-Jobson is a glossary first published in 1886 of colloquial Anglo-Indian words and terms that resulted from colonial occupation.
Born in 1985, Sean Anderson currently lives and works out of Santa Barbara. After extensive artistic training in Santa Barbara through the Visual Arts & Design Academy, he attended the Academy of Art University in San Francisco continuing his education in classical figuration. His time involved in the art scene in San Francisco found him showing and winning numerous awards at the Academy. Sean’s art has been included in exhibits at the Sullivan Goss Gallery in Santa Barbara, the James Gray Gallery at Bergamot Station in Santa Monica, Transalimenti in Abruzzo, Italy and the 2010 Red Dot Art Fair in Miami.
Traveling worldwide to further his knowledge of the arts, Anderson has toured Europe as well as North, Central and South America, creating and showing art. Sean has made two trips to Bolivia to the Rio Beni area, the inspiration for Influential Pigment. Made in 2004 and 2009 in conjunction with the Rio Beni Health Foundation, these trips involved the artist in humanitarian projects distributing medical supplies and health education. The Artist’s second trip involved educating locals on art and developing his own artwork from his native experiences.
-Suzanne Bellah, Director/Head Curator, Carnegie Art Museum, California
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