Duane Reed Gallery: Friday, 24 October 2014
October 24th through November 29th
Opening Reception Friday, October 24th from 5-8 p.m.
In his first major solo exhibition, Brandmeyer displays his prodigious approach to the St. Louis urban landscape. Andrew Brandmeyer is an emerging artist ascending to worthy national attention. While trained in classical painting and drawing, Brandmeyer paints with considered chaos, creating invigorated spaces with sophisticated visual textures.
Recontextualizing traditional landscape and portraiture, Brandmeyer is aggressively sensitive to the character of his subjects, whether they be portraits of his friends or abandoned and degrading cityscapes. In his cityscapes, Brandmeyer embraces the history of St. Louis while conveying the condition of a once-grand city in decline. The surfaces of Brandmeyer’s paintings reflect the quality of the city’s surfaces from decades of peeling paint and fliers, graffiti, faded lettering, and erosion. “The paintings’ formal harmonies, and the seductive, tactile quality of the surfaces themselves, reinforce a message that beauty is defined by a buildup of experience and, ultimately, by survival” (Julia Clift, Huffington Post). His portraits carry through the same surfaced textures, as if each person’s presence is composed of peeling, built-up, and dissipating qualities.
DUANE REED GALLERY
4729 McPHERSON AVE.
ST. LOUIS, MO 63108
314.361.4100
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