Altar of Earth // David Onri Anderson // Opening

Sheet Cake Gallery is pleased to present the first solo exhibition for Nashville-based David Onri Anderson. Altar of Earth opens Saturday, October 4 from 5:00 – 7:30 PM and will be on view through November 8, 2025.

Mystical yet grounded in the natural world, David Onri Anderson’s paintings are rooted in an intuitive and deeply personal practice of communing with angels, spirits and the environment around him. Fruits, insects, flora, and fauna are depicted alongside ethereal figures that Anderson lovingly refers to as Interdimensional Beings, forming his own mythologies through interlinking works. He often uses organic materials and pigments from his garden – meticulously building up the surfaces with layers of dry brushing. 

Altar of Earth will include paintings from a body of work that Anderson has been developing since 2017. Throughout art history, still life paintings of flowers, fruits and vegetables have been used to symbolize mortality and the fleeting nature of life and earthly pleasures. Anderson invokes this rich history through images of bananas, sunflowers, and candles, guided by sensory, philosophical, and spiritual processes. The figurative paintings continue this exploration as the internal anatomy of his Interdimensional Beings reveal other creatures and natural elements that give and create life.