Reed Anderson

Chinese Hemisphere
collage and acrylic on cut paper

Chinese Hemisphere
(detail)
collage and acrylic on cut paper

Entered Apprentice
collage and acrylic on cut paper

So So Says the Beaver
collage and acrylic on cut paper
So So Says the Beaver
(detail)
collage and acrylic on cut paper
press release
Reed Anderson deconstructs,
reconstructs, paints, collages and silk screens his works on paper: they
can hardly be considered drawings. His highly active process is at once
intuitive and deliberate. Images, such as elaborate flora and fauna, are
cut into the paper. The paper is then folded and painted, thus stenciling
mirror images which create a complex weaving of positive and negative.
When hung on the wall shadows are created by the negative space giving
the works a delicate physical depth. The surfaces and compositions are
compounded by collaging silk screened images of crystals, sometimes in
clusters. These give a rhythm to the work; doors to enter and a metaphysical
resting place between the echoing of pattern. Anderson's imagery has an
almost folkloric vision with magical implications. Within all of this
layering and mirroring of images, incidental marks, drips, cutting and
collaging one does not get loston the contrary, with Anderson's
deft ability, one can only get caught up in the hypnotic dance that he
so eloquently constructs.
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