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"Good artists borrow, great artists steal." - Jackson Pollock

"You don't have to have a great art idea- just get to work and something will happen." -Chuck Close

"First the artist sees what they know. They then paint what they see. Then, they see what they've painted, and, finally, they begin to know what they see." -Lucian Freud

"The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery." -Francis Bacon

"The absurd, with it's rupture of rationality- of conventional ways of seeing the world- is in fact a productive way of understanding the world." -William Kentridge





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Christopher J. Anderson is a graduate of Wayne State University (BFA in Painting/Drawing, 2013), Detroit. His studies also include Kendall College of Art and Design (Grand Rapids) and Delta Community College (Bay City). Currently residing in Detroit, Topher maintains an active studio practice at Corktown Studios, and at his home, where he shares workspace with artist Kristina Sheufelt.

His work intends to blur the distinction between technique and expression, using both simultaneously to provide a tangible product which can be multi-faceted in interpretation. 

This portfolio contains within it selected progression markers in several areas of discipline, from academic work to impulsive creation of pieces, over the course of several years of practice.

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