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Spotlight: Andrew Grassie
Photo © Andrea Rossetti
This week for our Spotlight we present Andrew Grassie's Giraffe, 2020.
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Giraffe is from a new body of work exploring images from the artist’s image archive, among them decades old snapshots associated with personal memories, tied to a specific place, a moment in time. Andrew Grassie chose motifs that had held his attention for reasons he could not always explain: photos from his image archive, sometimes many decades old and exuding a vague awkwardness, became sources for these works.⠀
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The intimately scaled, precisely painted work is executed in tempera, a painting technique associated with pre-Renaissance panel paintings anteceding the development of oil paint.⠀
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"The Challenge: We are in this together" – Esther Schipper for The New Institute
Photo © Kristian Schuller
For its December newsletter, titled "The Challenge: We are in this together", The New Institute asked Esther Schipper – among other thinkers and practitioners – to share her insights and analysis on the current global pandemic. For the occasion, Esther Schipper selected artworks by the gallery artists showing that the questions of viruses and pandemics have been among us for a long time.
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Online Tour with Andrew Grassie
Instagram Live Sunday, November 1, 2020, 11:30 am
Photo © Andrea Rossetti
Online Tour of Still Frame with Andrew Grassie and Manuel Miseur, Director at Esther Schipper
Sunday November 1, 2020, 11:30 am
On Instagram liveAndrew Grassie’s paintings are based on photographs he has taken himself or that he, in some cases, has found. Often they have been elaborately staged, although this effort is veiled by the ostensibly unassuming matterof-factness the small, precisely painted works exude. The works are executed with tempera, a technique associated with pre-Renaissance panel paintings anteceding the development of oil paint. Tempera dries very rapidly and remains relatively sheer. To create cover and solid colors, many layers are needed.
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Fully Awake, with Andrew Grassie
blip blip blip, Leeds April 6 – 21, 2017 www.blipblipblip.co.uk
Exhibition view of Andrew Grassie's works at Blipblipblip Gallery, Leeds, 2017
