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Reed Anderson - The Way You Look Is the Way I Feel

03/25/14

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The Ape, acrylic and collage on cut paper

Reed Anderson OS30 resident visiting artist. Anderson's solo exhibition The Way You Look Is the Way I Feel at Pierogi Gallery in Brooklyn, New York is March 21-April 27, 2014. This is his fourth show at Pierogi and will feature the synthesis of two series; his exuberant cut paintings on paper, as he refers to them, and his on-going "Papa Object" project. Anderson describes his process as additive and self-generating. He prefers to allow the evidence of the making of the works - both the hand and the process - to remain. Throughout the making of these works they are in constant flux, a dance between cutting, painting, and collaging. For more on Anderson's work go to www.reedanderson.info.

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