I don't care and you don't remember. Pleasant but useless and irrelevant memories.
2020
21" X 16"
colored pencil on paper
The titles of Duncan Robert Anderson’s drawings, paintings and sculptures tend to be long. They tell you a story, or rather part of a story, but that’s only the beginning. The titles are an entry point for the viewer to plunge in and exercise his or her imagination in the process of exploring a curious and slightly unsettling scene.
The sculptural pieces are like dioramas; museum exhibits displaying dramatic scenes unfolding on orphaned chunks of imaginary worlds. These are often displayed on elaborately constructed pedestals or shelves and are usually lit in a very specific and theatrical way. This creates a duality between the scene depicted, which is its own little world, and the whole thing as an object in space, including the shadows it casts on the walls and floor. Anderson is interested in history, mythology, astronomy, drama, ghosts, contrasts in scale, and notions of home.
David Richards
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Ice Age priestess, resurrected from trace DNA, purposefully misrepresenting place names and belief systems at interpretive center as quiet, small, revenge.
2020
18" X 18"
colored pencil on paper
Failed stars, orphaned planets and all the hosts of almost wonders and spectacular could-have- beens, transfigured in the shadow of the cathedral of lost constellations.
2019
40" x 38" x 38"
ship, painted figure, glass icicles
Requisite rainwater collected to initiate conduit of spirit communication
2020
20" X 16"
colored pencil on paper
Portrait of David Shannon Harrison receiving the Second Book of Enoch in arrowhead cuneiform.
2020
16" X 16"
colored pencil on paper
Great Cave Bear performing miracles: naming stars for ghosts
2019
34" x 21" x 11"
bear, architectural elements, figures, mirror