At first glance the ceramic works may seem like immediate reflections of the iconic brutality of the city where anderson lives - bold, minimal, and executed with severe precision. Anderson’s education is architectural design, which manifests in his forms as graphic, large-scale sculptures that command attention with a weight that is often attributed to public infrastructure - domes, tunnels, slabs and foundations.
While Berlin is known for its mid-century brutalist behemoths, there is another side to the city, attributed to a history of violent destruction and utopian rebuilding. With a closer look we see this poetry echoed in Anderson’s approach to materiality - he uses sedimentation, marbling, sanding and burnishing as techniques that have become a signature style for the artist’s use of clay.
As a digital illustrator Anderson employs a similar tactic - hyperrealism with a dreamy touch of painterly effect. This produces an uncanny tactility in their marriage of content and form; an image or sculpture that could be interpreted as overly wrought or cold at first glance slowly reveals a playful sensuality in the small but effective creative decisions embedded within their composition.