Robert Dale Anderson - Contemporary Art

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The Land Remains - New Paintings at Conduit Gallery

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What some people have said about it

Review on Glasstire of The Land Remains, new paintings at Conduit by Charles Dee Mitchell

Review in ArtLies of Small World Drawings exhibition at Conduit Gallery written by Matthew Bourbon

Anderson's small images might pretend to be representational landscapes. Indeterminate biomorphic shapes swim together into larger patterns that at seemingly recognizable at first - trees or rolling hills or a valley. It doesn't matter. Anderson's dense, busy little images charm and fascinate.
Jean Clair van Ryzin, Austin American Statesman

Robert Anderson's intricate, obsessive drawings reveal a sense of superb draftsmanship characteristic of Renaissance engravers. Visual quotations in his interiors evoke Piranesi's cavernous prisons. Inhabiting vast spaces, organic and vegetative shapes in the process of transforming into anthropomorphic creatures compete with Bosch's malformed creatures.
Dr. Irene Kabala, Art Historian

Anderson's work is often associated with the famous 15th century Flemish painter Hieronymus Bosch and the 16th century Dutch Brueghel family of painters. In my opinion the associations are more like Bosch meets Ensor meets Jan Vermeer. Anderson's images often evoke a nightmarish dream-like space. They are of places that often feel familiar but have never been seen before.
Kenneth J. Hale, Artist

Bob marches to his own drummer, influenced by various sources ranging from literature and ethnography to historic and contemporary artists including Brueghel, Hieronymous Bosch, Giuseppe Arcimboldo and Jess. Most of his work (drawings, paintings and prints in several media) is small, monochromatic and intense. It bridges a gap between figurative representation and abstract; conscious and unconscious. It's contemporary in subject and concept yet often structurally based on the compositions of historic masterworks.
Moira Hahn, Artist

Robert Anderson's drawings seem to combine Breughel's throbbing compositions with Durer's obsessive articulation; yet there sense of time is unique, with implications of almost millennial accretion or apocalyptic aftermath.
Deborah Everett, NY Arts

Anderson's magisterial confidence and control of the instrument is evident in the modulation of value producing the sense of luminosity in the works.
David Newman, Gallery Director, Forum Gallery

Anarchy is presented with discipline; chaos is intricately and obsessively rendered. The imagery hovers between the real and the imaginary. Ambiguity reigns as the central and disturbing issue of Robert Anderson's work.
David Hadlock, Artist

I have rarely seen pictures so exactly balanced on the dividing line between abstraction and representation. They prove how silly that distinction is.
William Wilson, Los Angeles Times