ANDREW SALGADO’s practice is an evolving process that explores concepts of masculinity and identity through assertive, gestural figurative paintings. Influenced in part by a cathartic personal encounter with hate-crime, Salgado’s practice (re)considers the tangibility and impermanence of the body, but also inwardly comments upon the fragility of self. Accordingly, Salgado exploits the purely physical properties of media to inform resonating themes within his work. In an effort to surpass a literal (re)presentation of his subject-matter, he prioritizes a visceral, sensual, topographic painting surface, toward an evolving language of figuration and abstraction. The work asks for consideration of what is visible, what is tangible, and what is suggested: pulling the viewer from the sutures of representation, and drawing attention to the painterly versus the metaphorical.
Andrew has exhibited in the 2010 Merida Venezuela Biennale; the inaugural exhibition at Gift 10 VYNER, London (2009); GLAAD Art Awards, New York (2009); the Courtauld Institute Academy Hang IX along Gary Hume and Tracy Emin (2010-11); I Am Solitary, Beers.Lambert Contemporary Art, London (2011); and I Am Solitary I Am An Army, Beers.Lambert Contemporary Art at Surface Gallery, Nottingham (2010). Solo exhibitions include Interurban Gallery and Elliott Louis, Vancouver, Canada (2008, 2011); and Paint Your Black Heart Red, Galerei Atopia, Oslo, Norway (2010). Forthcoming exhibitions include SELECT Contemporary Art Fair, London (2011); Janus Youth, Griffin Rayne, London (2011); Golden, LePetit Mort, Ottawa, Canada (2011). He was awarded Courvoisier’s Future 500 (2010), shortlisted for Art of Giving at London’s Saatchi Gallery (2010), and is featured in Channel 4’s The Science of Art (2011). He holds an MFA from London’s Chelsea College of Art, (2009). He lives and works in London.
Andrew Salgado
73 Clarence Way
London
NW18DG
London
United Kingdom
Europe
