Andrew Chan - Boogie Down

Andrew Chan

Bio/Statement: Andrew Chan I am an Australian artist with a B.A. in Architecture from RMIT in Melbourne and an M.A. in art from NYU. Based in New York since 1999, I have received grants from the Pollock Krasner Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts, and my work has been featured in TIME, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and on CNN. In 2011 my work was shown at the Bronx Museum as part of Aim 30 and at Randall’s Island where I has installed a 15foot high sculpture on the grounds. In my drawings and paintings I use line to assimilate and create representations—bordering on caricatures. The everyday is mixed with allegorical fantasy, be it by distorting people, architecture or subverting a sense of reality by slipping in a demon or alien, riffing on medieval and religious imagery, as well as media and TV reportage of world events (wars, the economy, geopolitics) —the larger aspects of life creeping around the edges of the everyday. The papier-mâché sculptures are based on the world of consumption from popular consumer products to war machines where they are stripped down and recast into relics.