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Andrew Guenther
Untitled
2007
acrylic and assemblage on paper (mounted on panel)
76 x 56 cm (30 x 22 1/4 in)
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Andrew Guenther
Untitled
2007
acrylic and assemblage on paper (mounted on panel)
76 x 56 cm (30 x 22 1/4 in)
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Artist’s Statement
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Things ingested and the shapes they become.
The leaps and jumps in Andrew Guenther’s work are as chaotic and jarring as the world outside. Fortunately, when considering Guenther’s work we are confronted with the frenzy of one individual rather than the sum of all of the world’s inhabitants and the changes they inflict on the world. We are provided with a narrow lens allowing us to see a pared down and version of the world we live in.
From the tangible objects and substances to the abstract, things are absorbed into individuals, reshaped and reprocessed. In turn the individual presents these objects, substances, and ideas back to the greater population where they are questioned, rejected or absorbed. Guenther’s works present a world of gathered and reshaped articles. When one takes a commercial item from a store shelf and puts it on her face it changes her appearance as much as the object shifts from its original concept. The cheap sunglasses one buys in a store are so symbolically charged; where they came from, the steps it took to develop the item; that they are nearly as alien as the otherworldly figures that become the consumer in Guenther’s work.
What we do with our time will not be remembered as much as the things we leave behind—ideas, objects, and substances become the cultural repository to which all of us contribute and collect.
Themes that Guenther has presented in his work include: evolution of the self, life and spirituality (and its absence,) and evolution of culture.
Andrew Guenther lives and works in New York. He has exhibited worldwide and his work has appeared in a number of publications.
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