THE FOCUS

"I’m interested in the apophenia one curates to make sense of the world around them. I tend to explore themes of safety, control and power and how these are implemented visually. I want the works made to perform a woven narration, constantly looping back informing and reimagining themselves to reference a larger, futile attempt at solving a mutating puzzle of our fictionalized ideal of America." Jesse Butcher, Virtual Studio Visit, June 2020 Jesse Butcher, Virtual Studio Visit, June 2020 Jesse Butcher, Vi...

"David Onri Anderson’s paintings are impressions of his sensory and spiritual experience with images. He employs experimental, non-objective and intuitive approaches to process and materials, with influences from tantric art and cosmic philosophy. In his expanding, deconstructing and echoing of a variety of forms, he shows the inherent alchemical possibilities in colors, materials and repetition." David Onri Anderson, Strawberry Mare, 2020, acrylic, and graphite on raw canvas, 38" x 32" David Onri Anderson, Cosmic Queen of the Unseen, 2020, campfire ash, acrylic, and gr...

"My work draws from my experience of a struggling Zimbabwe and is guided by the African philosophy of HUNHU/UBUNTU; the essence of that which makes us human; our compassion, humanity, our connection to each other. 'I am who I am because of who we all are.' In searching for these connections, I have chosen to go back to my roots, into the past and talk to my ancestors searching for links which I tie back to my own...