Hurvin Anderson and Art Gallery of Ontario

: By Murray Whyte Visual arts Tues., May 24, 2016 The big, dense, more-than-slightly ominous works by the British painter Hurvin Anderson will take you by surprise and not just because you likely don't know his name, according to Toronto Star. The surprise comes not just in novelty. Hurvin Anderson, Beaded Curtain – Red Apples, 2010 94 1⁄2 x 59 in. At the Art Gallery of Ontario, where Backdrop, an exhibition of Anderson works, opens Saturday, great big canvases toggle back and forth between the dense, organic rot of overgrown flora and rigid structures that contain them. Look more closely, though, and the specific can be divined. If Anderson trying to say something about our modern impulse to control nature with the mechanical means our great big brains produce, mission accomplished. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.