Image:Daytime, 2010.By Shon Anderson. 23 x 37 inches. oil on canvas

COMPOUNDED

Shon Anderson

June 17 - July 27, 2010

Summit Fine Art is pleased to present emerging artist Shon Anderson's debut exhibition Compounded . Anderson investigates the spaces where the urban landscape collides with nature. Inspired by his observations, Anderson depicts the interplay of architecture and the environment, altering context to communicate a renewed interpretation of the banal. Relying on multiple perspectives and a variety of cropping methods Anderson composes and communicates abstract thoughts associated with these representations.

Anderson's paintings question the rampant desire of ownership related to the external world, and the role this has in shaping an individualized gaze. Through layering and distorting imagery with the use of windows, mirrors, vegetation, and atmosphere, he draws the viewer into an individualized expressive moment. Depicting beauty in the quiet moments where urbanity stands still to give way to that which is typically unseen; the overgrowth of a back-alley, the stillness of a construction site at night, or the spectacular lace of light streaming through a car-port.

Shon Anderson is a recent graduate from the Alberta College of Art and Design, receiving his BFA in painting. He was awarded the Millennium Bursary for three consecutive years, and received the Jason Lang scholarship in 2004. Shon currently lives and maintains his studio practice in Calgary, Alberta, which continues to be a source of inspiration in his work.

For more information regarding this exhibition, please contact Emily Barnett at 403.809.4680 or email to info@summitfineart.com

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