Andrew Boatright - Aqua Miami

Andrew Boatright
Area of Research: Drawing, Painting and Printmaking
Undergraduate Institution: University of Central Arkansas
Place of Birth: Farmington, MO

Andrew Boatright draws inspiration from diverse sources: Hieronymus Bosch’s complex paintings; Ad Reinhardt works and writings; Robert Rauschenberg’s combines; and Maurice Merleau-Ponty theories of embodied knowledge, to name a few. Many of Boatright’s works are created with common household products such as caulk, insulation foam, nails and interior latex wall paint. Allowing his working processes to guide him, the artist has no predetermined outcome in mind. Instead, any intention or significance the sculptures and paintings possess is largely due to internal narratives created after-the-fact by the viewer. Bodily associations seem inevitable but always remain unspecified in Boatright’s work, particularly through the juxtaposition of hard and soft textures and forms. Such readings play out further when multiple pieces are aggregated together to “cross-pollinate,” as the artist puts it. These groupings encourage but simultaneously elude narrative overlays.

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Untitled, 2012, Mixed Media, 20”x 7 1/2” x 7”
Untitled, 2012, Mixed Media, 17 1/2” x 13” x 11 1/2”
Soft Geometry, 2012, Mixed Media, 16”x 17 1/2”x 8 1/2”