March 2010
Chicago Art Magazine
DUNCAN ROBERT ANDERSON
Lynda Wellhausen
Figures at the edge of a vast universe face each other, themselves and ghosts both literal and metaphoric. An octopus schoolgirl clutches her harp as she waits for the bus (or viewer) to bare witness to her amputated state. A table dreams of it’s past as a tree. A 19th century American woman holds a rifle in one hand and her dress in the other while she awaits her husband’s return. Drawing heavily from Dada and Surrealism, Duncan Robert Anderson relishes in the freedom he feels such movements give him. “They’ve already blown the door off so that you can pretty much do anything,” he said... read more

 

March 2010
Chicago Art Magazine
DUNCAN ANDERSEN AT KASIA KAY ART PROJECTS
Robin Dluzen
Anderson’s sculptural works, New Work, February 19, 2010 at the gallery’s new location down the street from the previous space on Aberdeen and Fulton Market. The limited, though impeccable, space suits Anderson’s work, composed of tiny toys, trinkets and found objects, combined and/or manipulated to engage in dialogues larger than their tchotchke selves... read more

 

March 2010
M
EYE OF THE MIND:Contemporary Photography
by Emerging and Established Artists  
M. Brendon Macinnis
Juxtaposing the works of such towering figures in art history as Hans Bellmer, Lee Friedlander, Morton Bartlett, Richard Shaver, Ralph Eugene Meatyard and Weegee with emerging artists, this group show dubbed Eye of the Mind, serves several worthwhile purposes. On the one hand, it gives young, gifted artists a rare chance to see how their work holds up next to the great artists of past generations in a gallery setting, and it gives the viewer a unique opportunity to see rarities first-hand and perhaps in the process discover new artists of tomorrow... read more

 

March 2008
Newcity Art
REVIEW-DUNCAN ANDERSEN; KASIA KAY ART PROJECTS
Duncan Anderson’s newest exhibition at Kasia Kay Art Projects, a continuation of his miniature sculptural tableaus and fantastical figurines, is fascinating in its meticulous storytelling. Anderson toys with train-set men and dollhouse furniture, creating architectural-style models of strange worlds and fantasy narratives. The titles invoke mysterious stories of tiny, mundane heroes and heroines. An amputee octopus with little-girl legs clutches a harp on the first day of school. A policeman and his dog are locked in a face-off with another officer, trapped in a desolate landscape... read more