Orange County Museum of Art: Art and Architecture Home Tour, 2011

Benjamin Anderson, Randy Noborikawa and Myself have been selected to show our work in the Orange County Museum of Art's (OCMA) Art and Architecture Home Tour on October 16th, 2011. I will be featured in the beautiful Midcentury Modern home in Dover Shores. Please check it out if you are in the area. You can buy tickets here

From the museum website:

"The OCMA Museum Council proudly presents the 11th annual Art & Architecture Home Tour. View six magnificent homes inspired by famous 20th century architects and built by renowned architects to suit 21st century lifestyles. This self-guided tour includes stellar examples of Gaudi-inspired design, California Craftsman, Midcentury Modern, and Contemporary Design; with added elements that include environmentally-friendly design, outstanding views of the coast, and great art. The event concludes with a lively reception at OCMA where guests can also explore the museum's two current exhibitions. Proceeds help fund the museum's K–12 education programs."

For more information please visit the OCMA website here

Below are some photos of the home and work featured:

Benjamin Anderson 'She Breathed Too Deeply'

Oil on Linen 90" x 78" 2005

 Benjamin Anderson 'Mama Skate Totem' (Watch After Them)

Mixed Media Sculpture 52" x 36" x 24" 2011



Randy Noborikawa 'Gitana' Lenticular Oil and Acrylic painting on wood

 Sean Anderson 'Yellow, Green, Pink' 
Oil, fluorescent enamel and spraypaint on canvas 60" x 72" 2011

Fresh from the studio...

 

Studio view: Sean Anderson 'Violet Basics' 72" x 60" Oil and fluorescent enamel on canvas, 2011

Sean Anderson 'Violet Basics' 72" x 60" Oil and fluorescent enamel on canvas, 2011

New works: 'Influential Pigment' 2011

Sean Anderson's work can be seen now at the Carnegie Art Museum in California through November 20th, 2011. For more info, inquiries and images please visit seananderson.com

  Sean Anderson 'Influential Pigment I'

12" x 12" x 12" fluorescent plexi, balsa, archival paper 2011

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'Wild Beasts' @ Champion Contemporary/ Austin, TX / Sept 1 - Oct 8, 2011

Joshua Abelow, Self-Portrait, 2008, Oil on linen 24 x 18"

This looks like a great show from Champion Contemporary in Austin, TX. If you are in the area, go check it out... Here is an excerpt from the press release courtesy of Champion Contemporary:

"Champion is pleased to announce a group exhibition of painting and video entitled Wild Beasts, featuring Ryan Schneider, Daniel Heidkamp, Shara Hughes, Joshua Abelow, and Ezra Johnson. Wild Beasts is the English translation of Les Fauves, a 20th-century movement of painters—including Henri Matisse—known for the use of untamed color and gestural, abstracted brushstrokes applied to portraits and landscapes.

In this spirit Wild Beasts brings together artists who reveal radical dimensions in painting today. The unleashed color, painterly sensibility and tough materiality of their works combine to express personal impulses and inner mythologies. Whether creating structured and color-saturated abstractions or loosely figurative work, these artists engage with the possibilities of paint itself." Via: championcontemporary.com

Shara Hughes, These Sweets Are Too Sweet, 2010, Oil, acrylic, enamel, spray paint, glitter, paint pen on canvas, 50 x 52"

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The Brothers Anderson at the Carnegie Art Museum Sept 10th - Nov 20th, 2011

My Brother Benjamin and I have been selected for our first two man museum show at the Carnegie Art Museum. We have been working closely with Curator Suzanne Bellah and the rest of the Museum staff to make this a memorable show. Many thanks to Suzanne and the exhibition sponsor, The McNish Family in Memory of Juanita McNish.
If you are in the area, please come and join us!
Opening reception September 10th 5-7pm. Invite below...
Carnegie Art Museum Website

Sean Anderson 'Shelter' (Pink Glow) oil, fluorescent enamel and spraypaint on canvas ©2011

San Francisco Art Fairs May 19-22nd 2011

artMRKT San Francisco 2011

Having taken a hint from cities like New York, Miami, Los Angeles and many others worldwide, San Francisco has stepped up to the plate with a trifecta of contemporary art fairs this year. Three fairs : San Francisco Fine Art Fair (SFFAF), SF artMRKT and ArtPadSF representing galleries and artists worldwide for a concentrated and slightly overwhelming three days. I have been to similar art fairs in New York, Miami, Los Angeles and Italy and for the most part these fairs in San Francisco held their own. I was most impressed with artMRKT and ArtPadSF for their energy and focus on emerging and mid-career contemporary work. The SFFAF felt to me like it needed a sip of Redbull or a shot of Tequila, or perhaps both would have been best. The work seemed, with exception to a few, slightly predictable in comparison to the other fairs, which left my excitement at bay (pun intended).

It is no secret that the San Francisco contemporary art world has been attempting to depart from the seemingly inescapable love child that is The Bay Area Figurative Movement from the fifties and sixties. Don't get me wrong, I love the work of artists like David Park, Richard Diebenkorn, Elmer Bischoff, Wayne Thiebaud and others that were involved in the subsequent "generations" of the movement, but that work was then, not now. And while San Francisco will always be associated with this movement, it is fairs like these that help to open the door for San Francisco as a destination for new and noteworthy artwork. The city is packed with incredible artists, galleries and arguably some of the best art schools in the country. This short weekend may have provided a long overdue recognition that San Francisco has still got it as a center for contemporary art. I am excited to see what next year brings...




Below are some photos of the experience:


-artMRKT-


artMRKT San Francisco - The Contemporary and Modern Art Fair from Arbiter Productions on Vimeo.

Jenny Morgan, 'All This Time' at Like The Spice



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'Stand Beside' - Paul Roux and Leighton Collier Roux @ Anderson Art Collective Opening May 7th, 2011

 Leighton Collier Roux

Wrapped (Navinki) - Resting

1 inch wide satin ballet ribbon, me (5hours).  Minsk, Belarus, 2007

Archival ink-jet print. 27" x 18". Edition of 10. 

Photo Documentation by Chuck Chaney.

** Wrapped originated as an image in my mind with the influence of my own love of dance as well as the

     social connotations that are attached to the materials which are lavish and often associated with the 

    feminine and a freedom and power that one holds as a dancer.

Anderson ART Collective presents Stand Beside a two-person show by Leighton Collier Roux and Paul Roux, two artists who have come together over the past few years to stand beside one another as friends, partners and collaborators.  Though they come from different countries and experiences, they find that their work, when placed together in the same space, engages in captivating dialogue around contemporary humanity and society.

The show is comprised of oil paintings, sculpture, photography, video and a special performance by Leighton Collier Roux during the opening reception on Saturday May 7 from 6pm to 8pm.

Leighton Collier Roux, a native of Southern California, received an MFA from Tufts University in 2008. In 2010 her work was commissioned by the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum and will be featured in their upcoming Call for Entries 2011. Paul Roux, a South African native, graduated in 1998 from the Michaelis School of Fine Art in Cape Town and was one of the six artists that were featured last year by the Anderson ART Collective at Red Dot Art Fair @ Art Basel Miami Beach.

According to the artists' statement, "In this rapidly changing world, we look to engage viewers in an urgent celebration of the beauty that is our natural heritage, a celebration consciously tempered by acknowledgment of the consequences of the prevailing separation between humanity and the planet."

"I'm very much looking forward to having this work engage the public at our space. The work speaks largely of the relationship between humanity and nature in a very forward thinking way, asking questions of the viewers with the intent to skew our positions on how we interact with nature," states gallery curator Benjamin Anderson.

Anderson ART Collective is located at 410 Palm Avenue, A2, in Carpinteria, CA and is open Friday, Saturday and Sunday from noon until 5pm and by appointment. Stand Beside will run through May 29.


Curated by Sean Anderson and Benjamin Anderson

Http://www.paulroux.net 
Http://www.leightoncollierroux.com
Http://www.andersonartcollective.com
 

 Paul Roux, 'Looking for Teddy' (Pastoral) - oil on canvas  - 48" x 118" 2011

Paul Roux, 'Interlude # 19' -oil on canvas - 46" 2010

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