Born Again and Again

David Onri Anderson (b. 1993, Nashville, TN) is a Tennessee-born painter, musician and curator of French/Algerian ancestry . He graduated from Watkins College of Art with the Anny Gowa Purchase Award in 2016. He was reviewed in the September 2018 issue of Art in America Magazine for his solo exhibition Earthbound at Elephant Gallery in Nashville TN. He recently had a solo exhibition at Patrick Painter Gallery in Los Angeles, CA and at David Lusk Gallery in Nashville, TN. His work has been exhibited by Patrick Painter Gallery (Los Angeles, CA), ZieherSmith Gallery (Manhattan, NY), David Lusk Gallery (Nashville, TN), Chicago Art Book Fair (Chicago, IL), Atlanta Contemporary (Atlanta, GA), Elephant Gallery (Nashville, TN), and group shows all over the world. He is currently represented by David Lusk Gallery and Patrick Painter Gallery. He also co-curates an artist-run space called mild climate and is the founder & curator of Electric Shed in Nashville, TN.

The collection of works in Born Again & Again are all made from walnuts I harvested from the walnut tree in my yard. I boiled the nuts down and made an ink, and drew night after night on paper I could find. The images are reoccurring personal mythologies dealing with an expansive view of reality.