2024 Entropy Plan for the Western Fam: Steven L. Anderson

June 13, 2024 – August 31, 2024

Entropy Plan for the Western Fam was an exhibition of recent video, painting, and works on paper by Steven L. Anderson. The show’s title plays on artist Joseph Beuys’ 1974 tour of lectures and performances in the United States, “Energy Plan for the Western Man.” Beuys’ interactions with his audience were meant to serve as a continual energy source to solve the ecological and spiritual problems of the time. Yet half a century later, these crises still confront us—as we are confronted by Anderson’s large-scale artwork on paper that sprawls across the gallery’s floor, a crumpled cross-section of a hewn tree.

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Anderson lives and works in Atlanta, GA. He has received two Artist Project Grants from the Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs and has been an Artist in Residence at Uncool Artist International Residency in Brooklyn, NY, Chateau d’Orquevaux in France, Joshua Tree National Park in CA, among others. His work is in a number of private collections, including Coca-Cola, Inc., Emory University Hospitals, and Microsoft. Anderson is the co-director at Day and Night Projects, an artist-run art gallery in Atlanta.

Entropy Plan for the Western Fam was successful submitted as part of the Lyndon House Arts Center’s exhibition proposal process.