BLISS - NEW WORKS BY CHARLIE ANDERSON
Charles Anderson is a young artist whose paintings play with the relationships between art, its context and the viewer.
His work is a vibrant and visually stunning mash-up of images derived from various aspects of popular culture, from newspaper headlines and beer bottle labels, from nightclub flyers and fashion. The results are rhythmical and layered paintings provoking more questions than answers, and challenging our understanding what constitutes art. Does a fabricated relationship create an image, it asks, or does the image define the relationship? Citing influences such as Sigmar Polke, Mark Bradford and the Brooklyn street artist Bast, Charlie seeks to look behind and beyond the plethora of images that surround us, and by reducing them to their fundamentals of line, form and colour, stripping them of their capacity to manipulate.
The work of this award-winning young painter, described by Duncan Macmillan as recalling Rauschenberg without being derivative, already features in a number of collections including that of British Airways. He has also this year been shortlisted for the prestigious Jerwood Painting Prize.
'Bliss', Charlie's first solo show runs at The Henderson Gallery from February 13th to March 20th.
His work is a vibrant and visually stunning mash-up of images derived from various aspects of popular culture, from newspaper headlines and beer bottle labels, from nightclub flyers and fashion. The results are rhythmical and layered paintings provoking more questions than answers, and challenging our understanding what constitutes art. Does a fabricated relationship create an image, it asks, or does the image define the relationship? Citing influences such as Sigmar Polke, Mark Bradford and the Brooklyn street artist Bast, Charlie seeks to look behind and beyond the plethora of images that surround us, and by reducing them to their fundamentals of line, form and colour, stripping them of their capacity to manipulate.
The work of this award-winning young painter, described by Duncan Macmillan as recalling Rauschenberg without being derivative, already features in a number of collections including that of British Airways. He has also this year been shortlisted for the prestigious Jerwood Painting Prize.
'Bliss', Charlie's first solo show runs at The Henderson Gallery from February 13th to March 20th.
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The Henderson Gallery gratefully acknowledges that this show is sponsored by Brodies, Edinburgh's leading family-run tea and coffee merchants since 1867.
The Henderson Gallery gratefully acknowledges that this show is sponsored by Brodies, Edinburgh's leading family-run tea and coffee merchants since 1867.
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