Like an orderly stack of oranges in the supermarket, Graham Anderson’s new paintings at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery in Tribeca are both organic and curving, arranged with rigid geometry, just one contrast of many that generates visual interest and tempts exploration. Some paintings feature a sheet of orange spheres – so orderly they appear stamped out – alongside circular forms with green leaves and shading that suggests natural citrus fruits. Most contain areas of pointillist painting in orange, blue and white color that contrasts flat monochrome orange spheres with no shading. In this painting, that dotted surface breaks up to reveal a background devoid of natural referents. Christmas ornaments, planets, fruit, punctuation, billiard balls and more come to mind in a strange space ripe for invention. (On view through July 29th).
