Henry Gunderson (artist)
Henry Gunderson (born 1990) is an American contemporary artist. He attended Redwood High School in Larkspur, California. He is currently a BFA candidate at the San Francisco Art Institute.
Work and reception
His work has been likened to George Braque and Henry Darger. He's also been praised for his insight into "the clash between man and nature and the animalistic tendencies innate in humans." Having had his first solo show at Fecal Face Dot Gallery in San Francisco at the age of 19, he's been called a child prodigy.
He describes his paintings as light machines. "Not machines that create light but rather machines that use light and transmit it to your retina." He has compared his conceptual nature to "a white hole ejecting matter from its event horizon. [He doesn't] speculate the origins of this matter but it does appear. It most likely entered through a black hole then was processed and ejected. When matter is ejected concepts are inevitable and often based on very CASUAL ordinary visions."
A selection of Gunderson’s numerous exhibitions in the last two years include those at Show and Tell Gallery in Toronto, Nudashank in Baltimore and White Walls. In 2010 he was chosen for Survey Select at Wonderbread Factory in San Diego, an exhibition that highlights recent developments in narrative painting.