Bio
Jon Scott Anderson's work is connected to a long lineage of landscape-based work. With Classical Chinese painting’s aesthetics that balance the polarities of near and far and empty and full as essential to a vision of the world, and with how the Japanese garden constructs and re-sets elements poised between the natural and the composed.
Each image is realized by working it much like a painting so as the iconic character of the photographic subject of grass, vine, etc. lessens they become more about a response to the pattern languages found in the landscape. Each image or page in the “books” builds a narrative that share the two defining characteristics of written Classical Chinese poetry , graphic form and empty grammar. Read together like kanji characters in a poem, each image re-describes a place where all things rise and pass away with the seasons. They speak with the formal gesture of a calligraphy character while engaging the viewer in a dialectic between presence and absence.
Anderson's background in painting (Kansas City Art Institute, BFA) and in filmmaking (Syracuse University, M.F.A.) inform these images. Anderson has exhibited his films, videos and photography internationally with one person shows in New York City, Kansas City and Tokyo. His photos are in the corporate collections of: Sprint Corporation, Capital One Services, Inc., Lathrop & Gage, Emprise Bank, Kearney Commercial Bank, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, Spenser Fane Britt & Browne, as well as many private collections.
Solo Exhibitions
2015 The Gallery at Pioneer Bluffs, Matfield Green, KS
2007-08 re-setting a place, Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2006 re-setting places, Thornhill Gallery, Avila University, Kansas City, MO
2006 re-setting places, Bucci Gallery, Emeryville, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2016 Winter Stream, The Epsten Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2015 UrbanSuburban XI, The Epsten Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2014-15 On Behalf of One’s Obsessions, Haw Contemporary, Kansas City, MO (details)
2014 Phenomenon, Kansas City Jewish Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
2013 Thanks For The Warning, Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2012 Missouri Bank/Art Through Architecture Art Boards, Kansas City, MO
2011 Beyond Bounds, Brilliant, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
2010 Urban/Suburban, Kansas City Jewish Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
2010 Kansas City Flatfiles, H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO
2010 Surroundings, Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2009 Group Show, The BonFoey Gallery, Cleveland, OH
2009 Snow, with Terry Evans & Michael Sinclair, George’s, Kansas City, MO
2008 For Art’s Sake, Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2007 The Captured Image,The John Steffl Gallery, Duluth Art Institute, Duluth, MN
2007 New Works, Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2007 Photo Group Show, Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2007 Group Show, Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2006 Middle Gallery Show, Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2006 Summer Group Show, Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2006 Group Show, The BonFoey Gallery, Cleveland, OH
2006 City Fields for Now, Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2005 Sacred, Candace Perich Gallery, Katonah, NY
2005 Holiday Exhibition, Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2005 Group Show, The BonFoey Gallery, Cleveland, OH