I am honored to have my to artworks “Deconstructed Head in Pink, Red, and Blue”, “Portrait Study in Blue 3.03.23”, “Dissonant Harmony in Pink and Cyan” and “Portrait Study 8.18.23” featured in Artist Portfolio Magazine Issue 53 and to have “Portrait Study in Blue 3.03.23” featured on the back cover.
Butterfly Study 12.14.23 (detail), Andrew Binder, 2023
Butterfly Study 12.14.23 (detail), Andrew Binder, 2023
Portrait Study 12.01.23A, Andrew Binder, 2023
Portrait Study 12.01.23C, Andrew Binder, 2023
Portrait Study 12.01.23B, Andrew Binder, 2023
Portrait Study 12.01.23D, Andrew Binder, 2023
Detail of Disrupted Portrait Study 8.24.23, Artist: Andrew Binder, 2023
Disrupted Portrait Study 8.24.23 was intended to be a quick, free-flowing study with little expectation of what it would look like in the end. It was meant to be practice with the intent of being loose and expressive. My concern was mainly exercising some new techniques and custom brushes I've developed over the last few months.
Detail of Portrait Study 8.18.23, Artist: Andrew Binder, 2023
The bare bones of Portrait Study 8.18.23 was started as a study months ago and then abandoned. I picked it up again recently but was not satisfied with my initial result after working on it again. It felt too stiff and overwrought. I realized I was being too careful and calculated in painting it. I stripped it back to its early layer stages and then built it back up again, while attempting a looser more immediate approach. I'm much more satisfied with this final version.
Detail of Dissonant Harmony in Pink and Cyan, Artist: Andrew Binder, 2023
My work Dissonant Harmony in Pink and Cyan will be among the featured works in the virtual exhibition ABRAZO: Embracing an Ocean presented by Verum Ultimum Gallery.
You can preview the works here https://www.verumultimumartgallery.com/projects-7-3 or enter the virtual gallery here: ENTER
Detail of Repression of the Self: Emotion, Artist: Andrew Binder, 2023
Detail of Repression of the Self: Desire, Artist: Andrew Binder, 2023
Both of these pieces began as one image, which was to be an experiment in fracturing and "destroying" the figure within a darker color palette than I have been using. Partly in preparation for a future project idea I have. The process quickly grew from being a simple test to a proper piece, which then grew into two related but separate pieces. The images are also informed by things I was thinking about while working on them. One of which being the various ways society attempts to destroy individuality and self-expression, and the effect on the psyche of those of us who don't feel we fit in a certain mold.
Detail of Deconstructed Head in Pink, Red, and Blue, Artist: Andrew Binder, 2023
Detail of Deconstructed Head in Pink, Red, and Blue, Artist: Andrew Binder, 2023
Detail of Deconstructed Head in Pink, Red, and Blue, Artist: Andrew Binder, 2023
Deconstructed Head in Pink, Red, and Blue began with the intention of being a quick study, but grew into a struggle, a learning experience, and a much more complicated piece. There was a point where I was very frustrated with it and wanted to abandon it. Then I got sick for a about a week or so. I returned to it afterward and saw what I had done in a more favorable light. I saw a new path forward for the piece. Something very different than what was originally intended. When I was finally completing it, while listening to a dark ambient mix, the sky outside was an apocalyptic orange hue, as smoke from the Canadian forest fires blanketed New York. In the end being forced to "step away" from the image for a while allowed me to come back and see it with new eyes. It wound up being the best thing for this particular piece.
