ERIK ANDREW

Erik is a featured artist at all the locations I work with. He is an major local talent with skills in many media as well as artforms. His body of work includes many figurative works, both painted and drawn, but he also occasionally indulges in abstract works, exercising experiments in pigment and paint texture. He is a skilled photographer and musician as well. In fact, the improvisational style of jazz is a continual inspiration in his process. -KK


"Eyes bulging out of their heads, bodies attenuating into emaciation, floating in ghostly netherworlds—these are indeed the people in artist Erik Andrew’s bizarre mental neighborhood. Andrew continues his exploration of distorted human figures and the unsettling psychological landscapes in which he finds them in his figurative paintings and drawings, with results that are both haunting and disturbingly funny. The people are rendered with a variety of styles and techniques, in images that vary from deceptively subtle to invasively bold; their expressions are piercing, conveying emotions that are immediately recognizable and yet a bit difficult to place. The paintings here often feature spectral faces and skin-and-bones bodies in mysterious settings—several works address the hypnotic horror of a crowd, surrounding the viewer with weird, oblivious figures." (S.C.)

Consult the calendars on this site to find out where you can see Erik's work around Seattle.

To learn more, please visit:

http://www.erikandrew.com