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Andrew Anderson, artist, painter, painting, paint, fine art, minimalist art, minimalism, reductive, concrete art, ABC art, color field, colorful, oil, acrylic, acrylic glass, plexiglass,
gallery, portfolio, austin, texas 512-289-6166, hunting art prize
gallery, portfolio, austin, texas 512-289-6166, hunting art prize
Statement
I seek to create work that transcends time and culture, paintings that speak on fundamental
terms and ultimately to everyone. Utilizing a reductive aesthetic with overlapping fields of
color, the work functions on a base or primal level. The colors are at play often jostling for
your attention.
Biography
Andrew Anderson was born in Mexico City from an American father and a Panamanian
mother. After a brief stay in Puerto Rico and San Antonio, he began his adolescences on
the west side of Houston. A creative family spawned a creative personality, and he
explored the mechanics of watercolor and acrylic before starting grade school. At the age
of 16, while endeavoring towards photo-realism, Andrew visited The Rothko Chapel for the
first time. He felt the emotional potential of abstraction and recognized the minimalist
efficiency that did not sacrifice efficacy. Thus began the desire for a new yet necessary
aesthetic and the battle with a new viscosity: oil. Andrew earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts
with an emphasis in painting from The University of Texas. He has since established
himself as a promising and practicing artist in Austin.
Andrew utilizes a reductive aesthetic in his art. His fields of colors, while often formally
creating multiple depths or planes, are the fundamental terms of his philosophy. These
terms provide the platform for his visual language, not incomparable to a tabula rasa. The
palette is not blank though; the platform consists of pure color where external noise has
been erased from the language. What is left, this language of color? Blocks, chunks,
merely matter undressed for the innate mind to interpret intuitively. This philosophy is the
necessary achievement of his form.
Consider how marketers and the media bombard our eyes and sensibilities. Consider the
cultural iconoclasm this bombardment creates. Andrew gives us a reprieve, time to ponder.
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60 wrd/min art critic
Born
1977 Mexico City, Mexico
Education
2001 BFA University of Texas in Austin
Awards
2009 The Hunting Art Prize Finalist (Jurors: Kate Green, Chiyo
Ishikawa, Suzanne Folds McCullagh)
2008 The Hunting Art Prize Finalist (Jurors: Rene Paul Barilleaux, Peter
Briggs, Christian Gerstheimer, Amy Lewis Hofland, Victoria
Lightman, Michelle Locke)
Biennial Southwest Finalist (Juror: Dr. Stephanie Hanor)
2007 The Hunting Art Prize Finalist (Jurors: Regine Basha, Viola
Delgado, Deborah Dobbins, Fairfax Dorn, Holly Johnson,
Valerie Olson)
Texas Biennial Fianlist (Jurors: Ursula Davila, Fairfax Dorn, Kate
Green,Valerie Cassel Oliver, John Pomara)
1998 University of Texas Merit Scholarship in the arts
1997 University of Texas Merit Scholarship in the arts
1995 Received Best of Show, KISD Art Show
Solo Exhibitions
2010 BoConcept (Austin, TX)
2008 Palette Contemporary “Polychromatic Investigations”
(Albuquerque, NM)
2001 University of Texas Flood Gallery (Austin, TX)
Selected Group Exhibitions
2009 The Hunting Art Prize (Houston, TX)
Gallery Threshold “A Dialogue, Three Generations, Three
Explorations Vincent Mariani, Roi James, Andrew Anderson”
(Austin, TX)
Palette Contemporary (Albuquerque, NM)
Arthouse at the Jones Center “Five X Seven” (Austin, TX)
Women & Their Work “Red Hot Red Dot” (Austin, TX)
Austin State Hospital “ASH Bash” (Austin, TX)
Charlie Uniform Tango (Austin, TX)
South 5th (Austin, TX)
The Spring (Austin, TX)
Guadalupe 5 (Austin, TX)
Gallery Soco (Austin, TX)
2008 The Hunting Art Prize (Houston, TX)
The Albuquerque Museum “Biennial Southwest” (Albuquerque,
NM)
Gallery Soco (Austin, TX)
Arthouse at the Jones Center “Five X Seven” (Austin, TX)
Women & Their Work “Red Hot Red Dot” (Austin, TX)
Palette Contemporary (Albuquerque, NM)
2007 The Hunting Art Prize (Houston, TX)
Gallery Lombardi “+OPPO-, Aaron David Smith & Andrew
Anderson” (Austin, TX)
Dougherty Art Center “Texas Biennial” (Austin, TX)
Spazio (Austin, TX)
2006 Spazio (Austin, TX)
2005 Spazio “New Work, Andrew Anderson and John Pavlicek” (Austin,
TX)
2004 Spazio (Austin, TX)
2003 C-Studio Gallery (Austin, TX)
Burn the Box (Austin, TX)
Spazio (Austin, TX)
2002 Austin Galleries (Austin, TX)
2000 University of Texas Blanton Museum of Art ”Student Exhibition”
(Austin, TX)
1999 Gallery Soco (Austin, TX)
1998 Early Works (Austin, TX)
1995 KISD Art Exhibition (Katy, TX)
Selected Bibliography
Castillo, Salvo. "Texas Biennial 2007 ? DAC." Web log post. Salvadorcastillo.
wordpress.com. 4 Apr. 2007. <http://salvadorcastillo.wordpress.
com/2007/04/04/texas-biennial-2007-dac/>.
Compton, J. R. "Putting the Bi in The Texas Biennial." Dallas Arts Revue.
2007. JR Compton. <http://www.dallasartsrevue.
com/ArtSpaces/Tours/TexasBiennial/2007/bi.shtml>.
Faires, Robert. "Arthouse Texas & Hunting Art Prizes: Art as big as Texas."
Austinchronicle.com. 2 Mar. 2007. The Austin Chronicle. <http://www.
austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid:451531>.
Hensley, Becca. "The Illuminated House." Austin Monthly Home Fall 2006:
Front cover+.
Hoelscher, Emily. "Event Information for Saturday Night!" Web log post.
Thresholdinteriors.blogspot.com. 6 May 2009. <http://thresholdinteriors.
blogspot.com/2009/05/event-information-for-saturday-night.html>.
Hulsey, Clarissa. "Schematic." Tribeza Oct. 2003: Front cover+.
Moore, Nikki, Salvador Castillo, and Amanda Douberley. "2007 Texas
Biennial, Butridge Gallery." Austinchronicle.com. 30 Mar. 2007. The
Austin Chronicle. <http://www.austinchronicle.
com/gyrobase/issue/review?oid=460777>.
Palmer, Tom, ed. American Art Collector. 4th ed. Vol. 2. Berkeley: Alcove
Books, 2006.
Palmer, Tom, ed. American Art Collector. 4th ed. Vol. 3. Berkeley: Alcove
Books, 2007.
Palmer, Tom, ed. American Art Collector. 4th ed. Vol. 4. Berkeley: Alcove
Books, 2008.
Palmer, Tom, ed. American Art Collector. 4th ed. Vol. 5. Berkeley: Alcove
Books, 2009.
Runia, Robin. Biennial Southwest 2008. Albuquerque: The Albuquerque
Museum of Art & History, 2008. exhibition catalogue
Texas Biennial 2007. Austin: Texas Biennial, 2007. exhibition catalogue
Waxman, Lori. "Andrew Anderson." 60 WRD/MIN ART CRITIC. 12 July 2009.
Lori Waxman. <http://60wrdmin.org/artwork/878919_Andrew_Anderson.
html>.
I seek to create work that transcends time and culture, paintings that speak on fundamental
terms and ultimately to everyone. Utilizing a reductive aesthetic with overlapping fields of
color, the work functions on a base or primal level. The colors are at play often jostling for
your attention.
Biography
Andrew Anderson was born in Mexico City from an American father and a Panamanian
mother. After a brief stay in Puerto Rico and San Antonio, he began his adolescences on
the west side of Houston. A creative family spawned a creative personality, and he
explored the mechanics of watercolor and acrylic before starting grade school. At the age
of 16, while endeavoring towards photo-realism, Andrew visited The Rothko Chapel for the
first time. He felt the emotional potential of abstraction and recognized the minimalist
efficiency that did not sacrifice efficacy. Thus began the desire for a new yet necessary
aesthetic and the battle with a new viscosity: oil. Andrew earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts
with an emphasis in painting from The University of Texas. He has since established
himself as a promising and practicing artist in Austin.
Andrew utilizes a reductive aesthetic in his art. His fields of colors, while often formally
creating multiple depths or planes, are the fundamental terms of his philosophy. These
terms provide the platform for his visual language, not incomparable to a tabula rasa. The
palette is not blank though; the platform consists of pure color where external noise has
been erased from the language. What is left, this language of color? Blocks, chunks,
merely matter undressed for the innate mind to interpret intuitively. This philosophy is the
necessary achievement of his form.
Consider how marketers and the media bombard our eyes and sensibilities. Consider the
cultural iconoclasm this bombardment creates. Andrew gives us a reprieve, time to ponder.
YouTube
Art Net
Mod Austin
60 wrd/min art critic
Born
1977 Mexico City, Mexico
Education
2001 BFA University of Texas in Austin
Awards
2009 The Hunting Art Prize Finalist (Jurors: Kate Green, Chiyo
Ishikawa, Suzanne Folds McCullagh)
2008 The Hunting Art Prize Finalist (Jurors: Rene Paul Barilleaux, Peter
Briggs, Christian Gerstheimer, Amy Lewis Hofland, Victoria
Lightman, Michelle Locke)
Biennial Southwest Finalist (Juror: Dr. Stephanie Hanor)
2007 The Hunting Art Prize Finalist (Jurors: Regine Basha, Viola
Delgado, Deborah Dobbins, Fairfax Dorn, Holly Johnson,
Valerie Olson)
Texas Biennial Fianlist (Jurors: Ursula Davila, Fairfax Dorn, Kate
Green,Valerie Cassel Oliver, John Pomara)
1998 University of Texas Merit Scholarship in the arts
1997 University of Texas Merit Scholarship in the arts
1995 Received Best of Show, KISD Art Show
Solo Exhibitions
2010 BoConcept (Austin, TX)
2008 Palette Contemporary “Polychromatic Investigations”
(Albuquerque, NM)
2001 University of Texas Flood Gallery (Austin, TX)
Selected Group Exhibitions
2009 The Hunting Art Prize (Houston, TX)
Gallery Threshold “A Dialogue, Three Generations, Three
Explorations Vincent Mariani, Roi James, Andrew Anderson”
(Austin, TX)
Palette Contemporary (Albuquerque, NM)
Arthouse at the Jones Center “Five X Seven” (Austin, TX)
Women & Their Work “Red Hot Red Dot” (Austin, TX)
Austin State Hospital “ASH Bash” (Austin, TX)
Charlie Uniform Tango (Austin, TX)
South 5th (Austin, TX)
The Spring (Austin, TX)
Guadalupe 5 (Austin, TX)
Gallery Soco (Austin, TX)
2008 The Hunting Art Prize (Houston, TX)
The Albuquerque Museum “Biennial Southwest” (Albuquerque,
NM)
Gallery Soco (Austin, TX)
Arthouse at the Jones Center “Five X Seven” (Austin, TX)
Women & Their Work “Red Hot Red Dot” (Austin, TX)
Palette Contemporary (Albuquerque, NM)
2007 The Hunting Art Prize (Houston, TX)
Gallery Lombardi “+OPPO-, Aaron David Smith & Andrew
Anderson” (Austin, TX)
Dougherty Art Center “Texas Biennial” (Austin, TX)
Spazio (Austin, TX)
2006 Spazio (Austin, TX)
2005 Spazio “New Work, Andrew Anderson and John Pavlicek” (Austin,
TX)
2004 Spazio (Austin, TX)
2003 C-Studio Gallery (Austin, TX)
Burn the Box (Austin, TX)
Spazio (Austin, TX)
2002 Austin Galleries (Austin, TX)
2000 University of Texas Blanton Museum of Art ”Student Exhibition”
(Austin, TX)
1999 Gallery Soco (Austin, TX)
1998 Early Works (Austin, TX)
1995 KISD Art Exhibition (Katy, TX)
Selected Bibliography
Castillo, Salvo. "Texas Biennial 2007 ? DAC." Web log post. Salvadorcastillo.
wordpress.com. 4 Apr. 2007. <http://salvadorcastillo.wordpress.
com/2007/04/04/texas-biennial-2007-dac/>.
Compton, J. R. "Putting the Bi in The Texas Biennial." Dallas Arts Revue.
2007. JR Compton. <http://www.dallasartsrevue.
com/ArtSpaces/Tours/TexasBiennial/2007/bi.shtml>.
Faires, Robert. "Arthouse Texas & Hunting Art Prizes: Art as big as Texas."
Austinchronicle.com. 2 Mar. 2007. The Austin Chronicle. <http://www.
austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid:451531>.
Hensley, Becca. "The Illuminated House." Austin Monthly Home Fall 2006:
Front cover+.
Hoelscher, Emily. "Event Information for Saturday Night!" Web log post.
Thresholdinteriors.blogspot.com. 6 May 2009. <http://thresholdinteriors.
blogspot.com/2009/05/event-information-for-saturday-night.html>.
Hulsey, Clarissa. "Schematic." Tribeza Oct. 2003: Front cover+.
Moore, Nikki, Salvador Castillo, and Amanda Douberley. "2007 Texas
Biennial, Butridge Gallery." Austinchronicle.com. 30 Mar. 2007. The
Austin Chronicle. <http://www.austinchronicle.
com/gyrobase/issue/review?oid=460777>.
Palmer, Tom, ed. American Art Collector. 4th ed. Vol. 2. Berkeley: Alcove
Books, 2006.
Palmer, Tom, ed. American Art Collector. 4th ed. Vol. 3. Berkeley: Alcove
Books, 2007.
Palmer, Tom, ed. American Art Collector. 4th ed. Vol. 4. Berkeley: Alcove
Books, 2008.
Palmer, Tom, ed. American Art Collector. 4th ed. Vol. 5. Berkeley: Alcove
Books, 2009.
Runia, Robin. Biennial Southwest 2008. Albuquerque: The Albuquerque
Museum of Art & History, 2008. exhibition catalogue
Texas Biennial 2007. Austin: Texas Biennial, 2007. exhibition catalogue
Waxman, Lori. "Andrew Anderson." 60 WRD/MIN ART CRITIC. 12 July 2009.
Lori Waxman. <http://60wrdmin.org/artwork/878919_Andrew_Anderson.
html>.
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