jan / feb 2015

Created in 2014

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stars and Stripes

2010 – 2013, acrylic and paper on canvas, 5.38 x 2.18 meters (17.6 x 7.15 feet), [50 x 40 cm (19.7 x 15.75 in) each, 50 canvases total]

andrew m. wenrick

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The single most quality that helps us identify geography is shape.  Take those boundaries away and an ambiguity sets in blurring relationships that allow us to ground ourselves.  Take everything else away and the vastness and iconic territories are distilled only to the place names held within those borders.

This piece is about taking the context out of the 50 states in America.  Each territory is giving the same size canvas and on that canvas are all the places names from that State, randomly scattered.  From afar, density and color is now the gauge in identifying contextual localities.  Up close, the jumble of names become familiar and repetitive.

Stars and Stripes

2010 – 2013, detail

andrew m. wenrick

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Stars and Stripes

2010 – 2013, detail

andrew m. wenrick

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Stars and Stripes

2010 – 2013, detail

andrew m. wenrick

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Stars and Stripes

2010 – 2013, gallery installation view

andrew m. wenrick

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Untitled series 10

2011, acrylic and paper on canvas, 24 x 30 cm each (9.5 x 11.8 inches each),

andrew m. wenrick

Untitled series 10-9

Two hundred horses yanked us away

2012, acrylic and paper on canvas, 60 x 80 x 4.5 cm (23.6 x 31.5 x 1.75 in) each, 3 panels total

andrew m. wenrick

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42 Webbs Road, SW11 6SF, London, +44 (0)742 763 6306 or +44 (0)207 223 8900

 

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