VIRTUAL STUDIO VISIT: DAVID ONRI ANDERSON
MAY. 27, 2020
VIRTUAL STUDIO VISIT: DAVID ONRI ANDERSON
MAY. 27, 2020
"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 graphite on raw canvas, 22" x 28"
David Onri Anderson, Virtual Studio Visit, May 2020 (Cosmic Queen of the Unseen, detail)
David Onri Anderson, See In The Dark, 2020, walnut ink, acrylic, and graphite on raw canvas, 30" x 40"
"His most recent subjects - patterns from fabric, objects and abstracted organic elements such as leaves, flowers and fruit - possess unfolding stories that allude to a universal spirit or mythology. Experienced calmly and gradually, these paintings exist as quiet conversations in infinite spaces."
— Artist Statement, David Onri Anderson, May 2020
David Onri Anderson, Banana Glove, 2020, acrylic, and graphite on raw canvas, 22" x 28"
David Onri Anderson, Ascending Stump Amanitas, 2019, acrylic and graphite on raw canvas, 28" x 22"
David Onri Anderson, Creature Creature, 2020, tree pollen, acrylic, and graphite on raw canvas, 32" x 38"
David Onri Anderson (b. 1993, Nashville, TN) is a Tennessee-born painter, musician and curator of French/Algerian ancestry. He graduated from Watkins College of Art with the Anny Gowa Purchase Award in 2016. He was reviewed in the September 2018 issue of Art in America Magazine for his solo exhibition Earthbound at Elephant Gallery in Nashville TN.
David Onri Anderson, Untitled (Banana Wind), 2020, acrylic, and graphite on raw canvas, 22" x 28"
David Onri Anderson, Strawberry Air Core, 2018, acrylic and graphite on raw canvas, 16" x 20"
David Onri Anderson, Virtual Studio Visit, May 2020
David Onri Anderson, Snail E.S.P., 2019, acrylic and graphite on raw canvas, 22" x 28"
David recently had a solo exhibition at Patrick Painter Gallery in Los Angeles, CA and at David Lusk Gallery in Nashville, TN. His work has been exhibited by Patrick Painter Gallery (Los Angeles, CA), ZieherSmith Gallery (Manhattan, NY), David Lusk Gallery (Nashville, TN), Chicago Art Book Fair (Chicago, IL), Atlanta Contemporary (Atlanta, GA), Elephant Gallery (Nashville, TN), and group shows all over the world.
David Onri Anderson, Ascension, 2019, acrylic and graphite on raw canvas, 22" x 28"
David Onri Anderson, Earth Angel City Demon, 2020, botanical mash, acrylic, and graphite on raw canvas, 22" x 28"
David Onri Anderson, Bananaphant, 2020, walnut ink, acrylic, and graphite on raw canvas, 22" x 28"
David is currently represented by David Lusk Gallery and Patrick Painter Gallery. He also co-curates an artist-run space called mild climate and is the founder & curator of Electric Shed in Nashville, TN.
David Onri Anderson, Super Ripe Nana Spiral, 2019, acrylic and graphite on raw canvas, 11" x 14"
* all images courtesy of the artist
