My work incorporates text into dense, painterly surfaces to form a bastard hybrid that I have coined “narrative abstraction”. These paintings are meant to elicit a wide range of responses – polemical, introspective and emotional. I construct them in a provisional manner, as they are not products of predetermined strategy. It is only through the process of making that the work’s thematic content is extracted and codified. It is a process of give and take between the canvas and myself, a balance between aspiration and reality.
The paintings are a product of struggling with interiority and exteriority, the subjective and objective, the public and private of art and painting in particular. It often seems to me that the world of figurative art presents a kind of parallel reality that is often involving, but ultimately artificial. Whereas abstraction, while having a superior claim on the present world (or factualness), is unable to utilize the richness of narrative and its attendant allusions. My work attempts to incorporate the strengths of both the abstract and figurative, playing with allusion and material fact, one actively informing the other.
-Andrew Baron
Resume
B. 9/27/63
Selected Exhibitions
"Zero Gravity/Heavy Weather" group show, The Painting Center, New York; 2007
"Three Painters", NextspaceGallery, 2007
"Ides of March" group show, ABC No Rio, New York; 2006
Musee De Monoian, New York; 2005, 2006
"Pinned to the Wall" Organization of Independent Artists group show,
Gallery 402, New York; 2003
Solo exhibition at Anomie Gallery, San Francisco, 2000
"New Images" group show, Center for the Visual Arts Gallery, Oakland; 1994.
Curated by Phil Linhares.
Group show, Five Day Forecast, San Francisco; 1993
Solo exhibition, ATA Gallery, San Francisco; 1993
"Inner Tensions" group show, Oakland; 1990
Other
Pierogi Flat File, Brooklyn, NY; since 2007
Drawing Center Viewing Program and slide registry, New York; since 2003
Teaching Experience
2003
Instructor, Continuing Education Program, Parsons School of Design
2002
Guest Lecturer, Summer Intensive Program, Parsons School of Design
1989 to 1990
Teaching Assistant, Undergraduate Program, The San Francisco Art Institute
Education
The San Francisco Art Institute, MFA; 1990
The Ohio State University; BFA 1986
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