Scott Anderson

Scott Anderson’s paintings from this period were defined by a forceful expressionist language, combining sweeping, cyclonic movement with heavily worked surfaces and bold applications of color. Brushwork and palette knife marks often remained deliberately visible, allowing the physical construction of the painting to become part of the image itself.

Anderson also developed many of his materials by hand, preparing paints from cured oils and mineral pigments using processes derived from traditional painting practice. The resulting surfaces ranged from thin passages of translucent color to dense, sculptural impasto.

Over a fifteen-year period, Anderson’s work was represented and exhibited by galleries in San Francisco and throughout the western United States. The body of work shown on this site has concluded, with the paintings now held in private collections.