left: Hide Out, 2004, graphite on paper, 4x3"
right: Last Light, 2003, graphite on paper, 3.75x9.87"
Robert Dale Anderson's (1949 - 2009) highly intensive graphite drawings of faintly recognizable objects and settings delicately balance both growth and decay. Apparent to the viewer, and what serves as the initial lure of Mr. Anderson's drawings and paintings is the way the line seems to have grown into the page via the artists masterful hand. As the viewer follows the line one is pulled into a degenerated netherworld reminiscent of both Hieronymus Bosch and Rabelais. His drawings are monochromatic windows to a place nearly recognizable where we are at once afraid and seduced to visit.
Selected Exhibitions:
New American Paintings, Boston, MA
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
School of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
SPACE, Los Angeles, CA
ARCO Center for the Visual Arts, Los Angeles, CA
Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA
ACA Galleries, New York, NY
Franklin Furnace, New York, NY
Albuquerque Museum, NM
Riverside Museum, CA
Long Beach Museum of Art, CA
Selected Collections:
Blanton Museum at University of Texas, Austin, TX
The Albuquerque Museum, NM
The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, CA
Seiji and Kazumi Kunishima, Nagoya, Japan