Duncan Anderson - new drawings and sculpture

March 4 – April 8, 2006
Reception: Saturday, March 4 from 6-9pm
Installation Images

Featured in sixspace's project room is an exhibition of new drawings and sculptures by Chicago-based artist Duncan Anderson. Anderson's work is based heavily on romantic and familial relationships, history, fantasy, and personal experience. Working both in drawing and in sculpture, the artist often pokes fun at the himself while creating pieces that exude humor, sadness, sarcasm, and personality. His works on paper combine scrawling images of things such as a love interest, an astronaut, or a werewolf with blunt and concise text while his sculptures, created from strange found objects Anderson obsessively collects, are more conceptual though still retain a certain sense of charm. With roots in an Appalachian town in east Tennessee but currently living and working in Chicago, the themes he explores have a basis in the rural south but also have an urban/contemporary edge to them. Meaning, the sometimes brutal text that accompanies his images still have heart - and who can't relate to that?

Duncan Anderson (born 1969) received his BA from East Tennessee State University. His work has been exhibited in Chicago, IL including East Tennessee Landscapes, (solo exhibition) at Columbia College; Mexico City, Mexico; New York, NY; and Los Angeles, CA. This exhibition marks his first solo show in Los Angeles. Articles on Anderson have appeared in the Chicago Reader and New City Chicago.