King Anderson

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King Anderson (1941 -)Canadian painter, photographer, collage/photomontage artist & videographer.He grew up on Vancouver Island and in West Vancouver B.C.Anderson studied drawing, painting & design with Roy Kiyooka amongst others at the Vancouver School of Art (now Emily Carr) 1961 to 1964.

His art work has been influenced by Surrealism, Pop Art, Abstract Expressionism, the Canadian Group of Seven, the Beat Generation, Psychedelia and Astronomy.Over the past 40 years Anderson has had many solo shows and has been in many juried group exhibitions .Many of his art works are in corporate and private collections.

In the 1960s he produced a series of photo-based, pop inspired collages on canvas that received some notoriety.He also shot many black & white photographs.Anderson embraced and explored the counter-culture lifestyle of that era.

During the 1970s he designed bookmarks for Duthie's bookstores in Vancouver and built model landscapes at the Ecology Centre in Lynn Canyon Park in North Vancouver, B.C.Anderson started Rain Forest Music and travelled extensively performing as a singer-songwriter playing the 12 string guitar.His travels included many areas of North America, the Caribbean, Mexico and Guatemala.

In the 1980s Anderson produced many exotic newspaper montages.After living on the coast at Roberts Creek, B.C., he started painting a series of landscapes called "The Edge of the World".Then at his studio in downtown Vancouver, he produced and exhibited more exploratory, experimental paintings & collages.Anderson also shot hundreds of 35 mm colour slides of local art and artists.

Through the 1990s he made more photo-based art works on canvas.Anderson produced video documentaries on the Vancouver art scene and The Blinding Light!! Cinema screened the resultant Blue Pony Videos.He continued to build model landscapes and interactive displays at the Ecology Centre.Since 1999 Anderson has been on the board of directors for the Artropolis art exhibitions.

Here in the beginning of the 21st century, his fascination with light and paint; the look of the water, the horizon & sky continues in his acrylic paintings.