Bill Anderson - Recent Work

February 11 - March 1

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Bill Anderson, "Tree and its Surroundings", 2013, Archival pigment paper on 300 gram rag paper,Edition 3 of 10, 20" x 30”

Bill Anderson, "Tree and its Surroundings", 2013, Archival pigment paper on 300 gram rag paper,Edition 3 of 10, 20" x 30”

Opening Reception Thursday, February 11 from 7 -9 pm

Bill Anderson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He now lives in Victoria,

British Columbia, Canada. After spending twenty five years exploring

traditional large format photography and alternative printmaking techniques,

including Gum Bichromate, Cyanotype, and Platinum, Bill has leveraged

the considerable interpretive potential of digital acquisition to realize this

portfolio of colour work.

The force behind creating images was born out of a desire to harmonize

elements often avoided in the search for a perfect, or untroubled brand of

beauty, and from Bill’s growing interest in abstract expressionism. To

consider these themes, and with aesthetics being a primary concern, it was

often necessary to re-establish special, tonal, and colour relationships, by

treating each important element separately. Once reconstructed, the

paradoxes of, for example, near and far, the manufactured and the organic,

the transient and the immutable, combined to create a new context: now a

no wake sign or a counterbalance may flit between their figurative roots

and non objectivity; and a scoreboard’s scrawled message can better

harmonize with nature’s.