DAVID ONRI ANDERSON
David Onri Anderson’s paintings are impressions of sensory and spiritual experiences with images. Anderson employs experimental, non-objective and intuitive approaches to process and materials, with influences from Jewish mysticism and tantric art to cosmic philosophy. Through the process of expanding, deconstructing and echoing of a variety of forms, he seeks out the inherent alchemical possibilities in colors, materials and repetition. His most recent subjects are fed from his practice as a gardener and nature lover in Tennessee, using patterns from organic life forms, extracting dyes and textures from elements such as leaves, flowers and fruit, and unfolding stories alluding to a universal spirit or mythology. He seeks to become more and more sustainable in his practice through the incorporation of reusing materials, foraging, and making his own tools and pigments from his garden and local surroundings in Nashville, TN.
LANDSCAPES
David Onri Anderson
Canyon River Sunrise, 2023
acrylic on canvas
12 x 16 in
30.5 x 40.6 cm
David Onri Anderson
The Fount, 2023
acrylic on canvas
16 x 12 in
40.6 x 30.5 cm
David Onri Anderson
Splash Bird Falls, 2023
acrylic on reused painting
20 x 16 in
50.8 x 40.6 cm
David Onri Anderson
Tennessee Hills, 2023
acrylic on canvas
12 x 16 in
30.5 x 40.6 cm
David Onri Anderson
The Sacrifice, 2023
acrylic on canvas
12 x 16 in
30.5 x 40.6 cm
David Onri Anderson
Monoliths and Memories, 2023
homemade walnut ink and acrylic on canvas
12 x 16 in
30.5 x 40.6 cm
David Onri Anderson
Inner Moonrise, 2023
acrylic on canvas
12 x 16 in
30.5 x 40.6 cm
David Onri Anderson
Orange Dusk, 2023
acrylic on canvas
12 x 16 in
30.5 x 40.6 cm
David Onri Anderson
Impossible Love, 2023
acrylic on canvas
16 x 12 in
40.6 x 30.5 cm
David Onri Anderson
Sunset Rocks, 2023
acrylic on canvas
12 x 16 in
30.5 x 40.6 cm
David Onri Anderson
Tree and Red Sea, 2023
acrylic and gorilla glue on raw canvas
8 x 10 in
20.3 x 25.4 cm
David Onri Anderson
Pastoral Psychedelia, 2023
acrylic on canvas
12 x 16 in
30.5 x 40.6 cm
SELECTED PAINTINGS
David Onri Anderson
Initiate II, 2022
acrylic on re-used canvas
10 x 8 in
25.4 x 20.3 cm
David Onri Anderson
Ancestry Apple Core Unscrolled, 2019
flower dye and mash, acrylic and graphite on raw canvas
36 x 48 in
91.4 x 121.9 cm
David Onri Anderson
Surrender To The Night, 2022
acrylic and graphite on raw canvas
18 x 18 in
45.7 x 45.7 cm
David Onri Anderson
O Rose! Let Us Recover Together, 2022
acrylic and graphite on raw dropcloth canvas
28 x 22 in
71.1 x 55.9 cm
David Onri Anderson
Untitled (Rainbow Breath), 2020
homemade walnut ink, acrylic and graphite on raw canvas
18 x 18 in
45.7 x 45.7 cm
INTERDIMENSIONAL BEINGS
David Onri Anderson
The Mermaid's Song, 2022
colored pencil on Arches paper
12 x 9 in
30.5 x 22.9 cm
David Onri Anderson
Lover of Our Galaxy, 2022
colored pencil on Arches paper
12 x 9 in
30.5 x 22.9 cm
David Onri Anderson
Sunset Simurgh, 2022
colored pencil on Arches paper
12 x 9 in
30.5 x 22.9 cm
David Onri Anderson
Guardian of the Seven Stars, 2023
colored pencil on Arches paper
12 x 9 in
30.5 x 22.9 cm
David Onri Anderson
Seraphim Cherubim and Thrones, 2023
colored pencil on Arches paper
12 x 9 in
30.5 x 22.9 cm
David Onri Anderson
Fruit Supervisor, 2023
colored pencil on Arches paper
12 x 9 in
30.5 x 22.9 cm
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
DAVID ONRI ANDERSON
Life Death Life
MARCH 30 - APRIL 26, 2023
CREATURE FEATURE
MARCH 9 - APRIL 12, 2023
OPEN CALL 2022
Annual Juried Exhibition and Fundraiser
JUNE 14 - JULY 25, 2022
DAVID ONRI ANDERSON
Born in Tennessee, United States
Lives and works in Nashville, Tennessee
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David Onri Anderson is a French-American Tennessee-born artist, musician and curator of French-Algerian Jewish ancestry. He graduated from Watkins College of Art in Nashville with the Anny Gowa Purchase Award in 2016. He has had solo exhibitions at Patrick Painter Gallery in Los Angeles, CA; Blaa Galleri in Copenhagen, DK; Harpy Gallery in Rutherford, NJ; David Lusk Gallery in Nashville, TN; and Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center, amongst others. He has shown at the LA Art Fair 2019 and the Hamptons Art Fair 2020. He has shown at the Atlanta Contemporary Museum and the Alabama Contemporary Museum.
His work has been reviewed, exhibited and collected internationally with works in permanent collections including the Soho House in Los Angeles, CA and Nashville, TN; and The Joseph Hotel, and Metro Arts Library, both in Nashville, TN. In 2020, he published a book of drawings with Zürich-based artist book company, Nieves. His work has been reviewed in Art in America, Artnet, BURNAWAY, DailyLazy, and Art & Antiques. Anderson is founder and curator of an artist-run space called Electric Shed Gallery in Nashville, TN (2018-present) and was guest curator for a section of the permanent collection of Soho House Nashville.
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The Nashville, Tennessee based artist discusses the spiritual in art, gardening, and the direct influence of beings from other dimensions.
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EDUCATION
2016 BFA Watkins College of Art, Nashville, TN
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)
2024 Mysteries of the Sun, Pond Gallery, Fayetteville, AK
2023 Rapture, Institute 193, Lexington, KY
2023 Life Death Life, Mepaintsme Gallery (online), USA
2022 Artist in Residence Solo Exhibit at Mount Sequoyah, Fayetteville, AR
2022 Homage at Blaa Galleri, Copenhagen, DK
2021 Elements at David Lusk Gallery, Nashville, TN
2019 Fragile As Fruit at David Lusk Gallery, Nashville, TN
2019 Apple Core Peace Temple at Patrick Painter Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Rice, Beans & Incense at the Atlanta Contemporary Center, Atlanta, GA
2017 I’m So Glad I Got My Own (Natural High) at Fluorescent Gallery, Knoxville, TN
2016 what’s in my soup?, Brownlee O. Currey Gallery, Watkins College of Art, Nashville, TN
2015 Burial Boogie Woogie at 40AU Gallery, Nashville, TN
2014 Desire Trappings at Watkins Gallery, Nashville, TN
TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)
2021 Moon Dance with Victoria Christine at Le Swamp, Knoxville, TN
2018 Smoke, Sand, Stars In Your Eyes with Lauren Taylor at Versa Gallery, Chattanooga, TN
2018 Plastic Fantastic Lover with Carlson Hatton at Patrick Painter Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Clusters with Benji Anderson at Good Enough Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2014 Conscious Camouflage with Ann Catherine Carter at Track One, Nashville, TN
2012 Idle Hands with Zack Rafuls at Ground Floor Gallery, Nashville, TN
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECETD)2024 The Imaginary Made Real, Berry Campbell Gallery, Chelsea, NY
2024 Hyphae, Gallery 114, Portland, OR
2023 Watermelon Seeds, Begonia Labs, Nashville, TN
2023 Creature Feature, Mepaintsme Gallery (online), USA
2023 New Mid-Century Modernism at ZieherSmith, Nashville, TN
2023 Tempter at The Bobby Hotel, Nashville, TN
2023 Holiday Show at LABSpace Gallery, Hillsdale, NY
2023 Krunchist Movement VI at Blaa Galleri, Copenhagen, DK
2023 Is It Not Enough That I Smile In The Valleys? at White Space, Atlanta, GA
2023 Love Will Keep Us Together at University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
2021 Float...Fly...Transcend... at Alabama Contemporary Center, Mobile, AL
2021 Hamptons Virtual Art Fair with Patrick Painter Gallery, Southampton, NY
2018 Nuclear, Like The Family at Feast Gallery, Fayetteville, AR
2018 Vivid Memories of a Blurred Past at Atlanta Contemporary Center, Atlanta, GA
2018 EXPO 36 at B.J. Spoke Gallery, NYC, NY
2018 As We Dig We Bury at ZieherSmith Curated by Scott Zieher, Chelsea, NY
2016 Keep It Warm at Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN
2016 Breakfast Lunch & Dinner at the Atlanta Contemporary Center, Atlanta, GA
2016 Blueprint at Van Gordon Gallery, Tennessee State University, Nashville, TN
2014 Bruised Anvil at The Packing Plant, Nashville, TN
HONORS2021 Joan Mitchell Foundation Nomination
COLLECTIONS
Soho House, Nashville, TN
Metro Arts Lending Library
Soho House, Los Angeles, CA
Joseph Hotel, Nashville, TN
Watkins College of Art Nashville, TN