Grand Luscious II, 2024

Acrylic on canvas

40 1/8 x 30 1/8 x 1 1/2 inches

Fair Market Value: $3,500

Starting Bid: $2,450

Buy It Now: $5,250

Omaha's MADS ANDERSON likes to think of his work as a basis for sparking visual conversations, ones that engage viewers in dialogues about organization amid chaos-and vice versa. Anderson has always been fascinated by life's inherent dualities: the secure sameness that guides our everyday lives despite the underlying reality that anything, and everything, can change in an instant. Yet this chaos is in itself a constant, an unpredictability we can predict with absolute certainty. Through his paintings and sculptures, Anderson seeks to address this duality. He combines color, pattern, and line into fluidly dynamic compositions in which each stroke and mark-no matter how small and apparently inconsequential-is unequivocally integral to the whole. Each part speaks to another, each one echoing, answering, questioning, and provoking endless responses and counter responses. These are the visual conversations Anderson hopes to start, ones that he hopes are equally thoughtful, challenging, perplexing, and playful-and perhaps even a little maddening.