Tree (Impasse), 2009–10
American, based in Vancouver, BC
oil on birch panel with unpainted line, 62 × 48 in. (157.5 × 122 cm)
On loan from the artist
The scribble interrupting this painting of a tree is an unpainted line, an irregular but tightly defined omission in the representational space. This omission causes the wooden panel (tree) on which the painting is made to show through, and seemingly obscure, the image (tree).
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
- Tree (Impasse)
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- Art Collection
- Art Didactics
- Tree (Impasse)