Scott Lloyd Anderson | Oil Paintings

Working en plein air, Anderson sees his subjects as “found objects.” Going out into our visual world, he sees a compelling rectangle, where someone else might simply walk past. Look at the snow person depicted in Night at the Intersection (2019). A ghostly figure made of snow looms near the center of the painting, amidst snow on the ground that’s warm in color from the amber light. Just behind the snow person, what looks like the moon but is actually a street lamp shines the way toward an urban street. 

In Maple On Pleasant Avenue, Anderson records the energy of nature’s beauty in the painting. The leaves are pure emotion, especially in contrast with the realism of the house underneath the tree. That house and the next door one add to the context of where the tree grows. It’s a city scene that explodes with nature’s beauty.

One painting featured in Anderson’s solo show at Douglas Flanders & Associates does away with the horizon line all together. The painting shows a view of a waterslide, in a manner that at once employs realism and abstraction. The painting throws back to Anderson’s background as a designer as he translates the dynamic shapes, lines and curves of the slide onto his canvas. The fiberglass of the slide glows a strange green color. At the top of the slide, you see the silhouette of a figure going through the tube.

About Scott Lloyd Anderson

Scott Lloyd Anderson (American, b. 1958, Atlanta, Georgia, lives and works in Minneapolis, Minnesota) My practice incorporates a practice and palette that traces its lineage back to Frank Dumond and the Fin de ciécle in Paris. I value accurate draftsmanship, and ideas about composition learned during my years as a magazine art director. My paintings are impressionistic in that they describe the unique character of a particular day’s weather and light, and realistic in their desire to show the world as it is. I use the language of landscape to express abstract notions about design, color, an form — and simply for the pleasing texture of paint on canvas. Scott Lloyd Anderson is a quintessential landscape painter of the 21st century. In addition to interpreting the beauty of nature or the vitality of the cityscape, Scott has explored that area where so much of our experience lies; the suburbs. He proves it is possible to paint a good picture of anything by combining detailed realism with abstract playfulness. Scott is a nationally recognized plein air painter who has won awards both locally and nationally. His art has taken him from Minnesota across America and to China, Mexico, Canada, Italy and England.

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