Show Pink

Robert Dale Anderson, artist

1949–2009

Show Pink, 2002

Where object was made: United States

Material/technique: relief printing; wove paper; color soft-ground etching

Dimensions:
Plate Mark/Block Dimensions (Height x Width): 200 x 255 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 10 1/16 x 12 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 16 x 20 in

Credit line: Gift of the KU Art Department, Intaglio Area

Accession number: 2002.0198

Not on display

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Brosseau Center for Learning: Six Degrees of Separation: Prints from KU and Beyond

The writhing forms in Robert Dale Anderson’s Show Pinkappear both cartoonish and repulsive. One can almost make out eyes, hair, and other body parts among the fray, but any conclusive identification is difficult. Anderson discusses the viewing experience of this dense imagery:

“What is realized through silent contemplation is content that polite society does its best to hide - decay, disease, death, dementia, and chaos: the dark side. Siding within the traditions of the erotic, carnivalesque, fantastic, surrealistic, and psychedelic we find malignant growth and movement, a rotting world turned upside down in disorder, twisted grotesque bodies, beautiful monsters and decaying ruins.”