New Sculpture: 'Influential Pigment'

Thought I would give you a peak at some new work I have been up to recently...I have been working on this series 'Influential Pigment' for the last 12 months or so. I started the series with my paintings and after looking at everything hung in my studio, I felt like I needed something else in the space to work with. After countless hours of sitting and staring and contemplating in the studio, I was sifting through a plastic materials store online and I came across these fluorescent plexiglass sheets that blew my mind. After working with them and figuring out their qualities (a few failed attempts later...usually a sign you are doing something right) I made my own miniature huts out of wood and paper and constructed the plexiglass into a cube to surround them. In the process of changing the medium with which I was working, I found myself discovering even more about this series of work I had started.

Installation view: Sean Anderson 'Influential Pigment I' and 'Influential Pigment II' 2011

The process of creating in 3 dimensions brought me closer to the subject matter I had been painting. The wood and materials used to make the huts are taken from nature, and conversely, the world they are inhabited in is purely artificial...It is my hope that this equipoise of subjects is what gives the work life after being viewed. Enjoy. More to come soon...

Sean Anderson 'Influential Pigment I'

Sean Anderson 'Influential Pigment III'

New Paintings: Infuential Pigment

Sean Anderson, 'Shelter' (Pink Glow) oil and fluorescent enamel on canvas 2010

Sean Anderson, 'Pink Hut' (Adaptation) oil and fluorescent enamel on canvas 2010

Sean Anderson, 'Orange Hut' (Product of circumstance) oil and fluorescent enamel on canvas 2010

Sean Anderson, 'Andes' (Adopted Hue) oil and fluorescent enamel on canvas 2010

Sean Anderson, 'Blue Hut' (Influential Pigment) oil and fluorescent enamel on canvas 2010

"At only 25 years of age Sean Anderson seems to have made it to shore from the sea of lost mid-twenties artist’s searching for their voice, trying to find land amongst the vast turbulent seas that make up the daunting art world. As co-curator/owner of the budding Anderson ART Collective in Carpinteria, CA, he has not only found earthy purchase for his own work, but also throws the occasional life vest to other adrift art souls in his attempt to curate cutting edge exhibitions at the gallery. After organizing the well received ‘Exchange’ the most recent show at AAC, Mr. Anderson is now gearing up for his second solo show at the gallery opening March 12.

Aptly titled Influential Pigment, Anderson continues to play with themes of advertising and commercialism and their influence on daily life. This most recent work searching for bridges that connect America and its 3^rd world counterparts and finding mass marketing tools of color theory and fluorescents at the core. With a visceral palette of neon enamel, oils and mixed media, Anderson’s paintings and installations for this show portray simple huts and jungles that seem to clash elegantly with the juggernaut that is American Capitalism.

When first viewed, this most recent body of work exudes a certain, eye-catching ‘you can’t not look at me’ feel with neon greens, oranges and pinks that are inescapable. Almost as if hidden in the jungle, bathing the primitive huts in a fluorescent glow, are neon signs just out of eyes reach urging one to buy, sell or trade at western world pace. Yet, once past the initial impact of color, the content of serene scenes and classic ideals of ‘hut in jungle’, seem to tame the buzz of neons and form the ideas behind Anderson’s newest paintings. Provoking notions as simple and profound as man vs. nature, need vs. greed and insinuating a movement towards an obsequiously homogeneous world-culture, these works not only ask questions, but are unnervingly provocative in their neon hues.

With nods to Katz’s neo-expressionist nature, Ruscha’s mass media commentary and Doig’s dream-like magical realism, Anderson has found his own voice in this new work that bespeaks a need to move forward in art practice and retain honest heart-felt commentary." -BA via SBartsblog

Sean Anderson 'Influential Pigment'

Opening at the Anderson Art Collective March 19th 2011

Reception March 19th 6-9pm

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