Apocalypse, 2013
American, based in Vancouver, BC
archival inkjet print, 20 × 60 in. (50.8 × 152.4 cm)
On loan from the artist
This work is a diptych of two photographs taken in South Africa. On the left is an oil droplet on a wet road on the outskirts of Cape Town, which creates a rainbow aureola against the dark "sky" of the asphalt. On the right is one of the remaining stairwells of the infamous Old Fort prison in Johannesburg, photographed through glass so that the artist's reflection appears around the edge of the image. A circular section has been removed from the centre of this second image in a location and size corresponding to the oil droplet on the left.
About the Artist
Jonathan A. Anderson is the Eugene and Jan Peterson Associate Professor of Theology and the Arts at Regent College (Vancouver, BC). His scholarship explores the interrelations of art history, theology, and religious studies, with a particular focus on modern and contemporary art. He is the author of The Invisibility of Religion in Contemporary Art (2025), Modern Art and the Life of a Culture: The Religious Impulses of Modernism (with William Dyrness, 2016), and many articles and book chapters on related topics, including “Modern Art and Religion” in The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion (2021). Trained as an artist, art critic, and theologian, Anderson has a PhD from King’s College London and an MFA from California State University Long Beach.
Jonathan Anderson's Work
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- Art Collection
- Art Didactics
- Apocalypse
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- Art Collection
- Art Didactics
- Apocalypse