Local artist unveils ‘modern’ pieces & unique methods.
Drawings by Tim Anderson, a modern artist who utilizes different materials to create his pieces, are on display at Fresno City College’s Art Space Gallery.
Anderson is an artist that favors using different drawing utensils and surfaces to obtain different results. In one piece, Anderson said he takes the utensil he is using and draws out lines and then begins to form images within those lines.
These images take many different forms, often very different from each other. In his pieces you could find many different images within a single drawing. He said he gets his inspiration from many places and works with whatever comes to his mind.
Anderson said that there are two important elements in art. “The material that you are putting on the surface and the surface you are putting the material on,” he said. He mixes his materials and tries different techniques with different kinds of paper and then builds from that.
His art has developed over the years. “This is my favorite” he said as he pointed to his work “Across the Universe”. “But then again, so was that one, that one and that one” he said about other works.
At the gallery there are 20 art pieces all different in their own unique way. One piece, “Over the Top,” has a black background with contrasting light gray figures in front.
Another piece, in color, “Made in Voyage, for Her Ominous Boss” has a black background that brings out the colors on the figures in the foreground.
Anderson said he does not want his art to represent anything. “I just want people to have a good time when they look at them,” he said. “Just because they have images does not mean they have meaning or messages.”
Anderson’s advice to upcoming artists is to “keep a sketchbook and use them all the time.”
Anderson has a Masters degree in Fine Arts from the University of Oklahoma, according to his website, timothyanderson.net.
Anderson said his main reason for doing art is just for the fun of it.
The art will be on display from Nov. 3 to Dec. 4, 2014.
