Surfer | Stephen Andrews
2005
16 x 20 inches (17.25 x 21.25 inches framed)
Edition of 30
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
This work is part of a series entitled POV that riffs on current events, abstracting images drawn from contemporaneous news sources. These “large pictures in small format,” in part through their pixelation, examine “how meaning is constructed.” As Andrews has remarked about his work, “Beauty is not pretty; beauty is the sublime; it’s at the brink of something; it’s at the edge, and when you stand at the precipice, that’s when it is most terrifying and most beautiful.”
ABOUT STEPHEN ANDREWS
Born 1956 in Sarnia, ON
Trained as a photographer, Stephen Andrews has been practicing since the late 1970s, exploring topics as varied as AIDS, surveillance, war, memory and chaos theory. He has been commissioned for several public artworks ad his films have been screened at festivals on three continents. Gallery TPW presented Andrews’s solo exhibition “Three Hundred and Sixty-Five Pictures” in 1996 and included his work in the 2009 group exhibition “War at a Distance.”
Selected solo exhibitions: Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (2015); “Possible Outcomes,” Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto (2014); “Periferal,” Galerie Division, Montreal (2013); Illingworth Kerry Gallery, Calgary (2011)
Selected group exhibitions: “Archival Dialogues,” Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto (2012); “What It Is,” National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (2010); “Things Fall Apart,” Winkleman Gallery, New York (2009); La Biennale de Montreal (2007)
Selected public collections: Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Oakville Galleries, Oakville, ON; Agnes Etherington Art Gallery, Kingston, ON; Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, BC
2005
16 x 20 inches (17.25 x 21.25 inches framed)
Edition of 30
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
This work is part of a series entitled POV that riffs on current events, abstracting images drawn from contemporaneous news sources. These “large pictures in small format,” in part through their pixelation, examine “how meaning is constructed.” As Andrews has remarked about his work, “Beauty is not pretty; beauty is the sublime; it’s at the brink of something; it’s at the edge, and when you stand at the precipice, that’s when it is most terrifying and most beautiful.”
ABOUT STEPHEN ANDREWS
Born 1956 in Sarnia, ON
Trained as a photographer, Stephen Andrews has been practicing since the late 1970s, exploring topics as varied as AIDS, surveillance, war, memory and chaos theory. He has been commissioned for several public artworks ad his films have been screened at festivals on three continents. Gallery TPW presented Andrews’s solo exhibition “Three Hundred and Sixty-Five Pictures” in 1996 and included his work in the 2009 group exhibition “War at a Distance.”
Selected solo exhibitions: Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (2015); “Possible Outcomes,” Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto (2014); “Periferal,” Galerie Division, Montreal (2013); Illingworth Kerry Gallery, Calgary (2011)
Selected group exhibitions: “Archival Dialogues,” Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto (2012); “What It Is,” National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (2010); “Things Fall Apart,” Winkleman Gallery, New York (2009); La Biennale de Montreal (2007)
Selected public collections: Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Oakville Galleries, Oakville, ON; Agnes Etherington Art Gallery, Kingston, ON; Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, BC
2005
16 x 20 inches (17.25 x 21.25 inches framed)
Edition of 30
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
This work is part of a series entitled POV that riffs on current events, abstracting images drawn from contemporaneous news sources. These “large pictures in small format,” in part through their pixelation, examine “how meaning is constructed.” As Andrews has remarked about his work, “Beauty is not pretty; beauty is the sublime; it’s at the brink of something; it’s at the edge, and when you stand at the precipice, that’s when it is most terrifying and most beautiful.”
ABOUT STEPHEN ANDREWS
Born 1956 in Sarnia, ON
Trained as a photographer, Stephen Andrews has been practicing since the late 1970s, exploring topics as varied as AIDS, surveillance, war, memory and chaos theory. He has been commissioned for several public artworks ad his films have been screened at festivals on three continents. Gallery TPW presented Andrews’s solo exhibition “Three Hundred and Sixty-Five Pictures” in 1996 and included his work in the 2009 group exhibition “War at a Distance.”
Selected solo exhibitions: Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (2015); “Possible Outcomes,” Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto (2014); “Periferal,” Galerie Division, Montreal (2013); Illingworth Kerry Gallery, Calgary (2011)
Selected group exhibitions: “Archival Dialogues,” Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto (2012); “What It Is,” National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (2010); “Things Fall Apart,” Winkleman Gallery, New York (2009); La Biennale de Montreal (2007)
Selected public collections: Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Oakville Galleries, Oakville, ON; Agnes Etherington Art Gallery, Kingston, ON; Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, BC