Critic’s Choice: In Scott Anderson’s ‘Supper Club’ paintings, pretty isn’t the point By DAVID PAGEL APRIL 14, 2016 Scott Anderson’s eight new paintings in “Supper Club” at CES Gallery are not particularly attractive. Ugly colors, cluttered compositions and ham-fisted paint-handling make for works in which rudimentary images burble up from unsettled backgrounds awhirl with undigested restlessness. Anderson’s oils on canvas are also intellectually sophisticated, physiologically complex and psychologically ambivalent. Each is an odd mélange of abstraction and figuration, a conflicted…Read More
