Scott Anderson’s paintings begin with a reflection on archetypes from the history of painting, such as the pastoral landscape, the religious narrative, or the glorifying portrait. A core image is developed using a patchwork of approaches and techniques, from memory to photo-based source material.
The subject matter in Anderson’s work reflects his deep fascination of hero worship, cults, ritualistic behavior, utopias, and other systems designed by human kind to provide a culture with greater purpose. His simultaneous reverence and skepticism of such systems is demonstrated through the craft of painting – a discipline that has its own set of champions, followers, agnostics, and heretics.
Anderson’s paintings give the viewer occasion for the exploration of the idea of cultivating a new independent identity from the wastes of old tropes and ways. Notions of aftermath, rebirth, revolution, and the post-apocalypse also function as metaphors for the condition of contemporary painting.
BORN
1973 Urbana, Illinois
Lives and works in Chicago
EDUCATION
2003 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [ m.f.a. ]
1997 Kansas State University [ b.f.a. ]
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