BLUE MOUNTAIN GALLERY

Industrial Dreams is an exhibition of new paintings by Douglas Anderson. The works on display express the joy of painting and the silent rhythm of life in visual form. Though not literally referencing “Industrial” landscapes, the works evoke An-derson’s youth growing up in Cleveland when the city was at the crest of its status as an indus-trial center. His practice is one of seeking and discovery, of not knowing what will happen; it is in this space that, for him, symbolic forms emerge. Many of the works take on the character of landscape, often of an urban character, of forms growing, turning and evolving. The language of painting is evident in these works in contrasts of wet and dry, fast and slow, control and loss of control, line and tone, bright colors and dull, and black and white.