The first painting in this body of work was made in my back yard. The light was fantastic. Since that summer in 2007 the paintings have continued to develop and feed back into my sculptural projects, and visa versa. Drawing on the earlier pieces dealing more directly with a bulletin board aesthetic, that I began while studying at the Bauhaus University in Germany, these works have progressed along a trajectory that has led to a distillation of my interests both in the conceptual underpinnings of painting and the expressive potential of colour and information systems.
I don't paint paintings but rather I would say that I make them. They are built. Each one finding its way to both honor the object and the painted surface. I'm interested in what I call cascading dualities: niether/nor, object/idea. expressive/conceptual, 3D/2D, etc. I see a potential for movement in these places somewhere between where things are both coming together and falling apart.
Randall Anderson/ 2010
