Blood-Red Landscapes by Andrew McIntosh Conjure the Terrifying Unknown

"“These works sit somewhere between memory and invention-familiar landscapes interrupted by something I don't fully understand,” the artist says."

"The gallery offers insight into the exhibition with an apt quote from the book: “The truth about the world ... is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance be populate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tent show whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.”"

"On view at School Gallery, these bold pieces comprise the artist's solo exhibition, I Hope This Transmission Finds You Soon. Evoking alien communication and the unknowns that surround us, even in recognizable spaces, the show draws on Cormac McCarthy's 1985 novel Blood Meridian, a Gothic Western rife with violence and an unyielding desire for dominance."

"Typically gravitating toward dreamy palettes of soft blues, grays, and oranges, Scottish artist Andrew McIntosh opts for a sanguine red in a new body of work. The crimson paintings continue McIntosh's otherworldly landscapes that cast familiar forms like mountains and valleys in a strange, uncanny light. Glowing orbs float among the craggy terrain and veil the scenes in mystery."

Scottish artist Andrew McIntosh creates a new body of work dominated by sanguine red, shifting from earlier dreamy palettes of soft blues, grays, and oranges. The paintings continue otherworldly landscapes where familiar forms such as mountains and valleys appear in strange, uncanny light. Glowing orbs float through craggy terrain, veiling scenes in mystery. The works are described as sitting between memory and invention, involving familiar landscapes interrupted by something not fully understood. A solo exhibition titled I Hope This Transmission Finds You Soon is presented at School Gallery in Folkestone, U.K., and evokes alien communication and the unknown. The exhibition draws on Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian, a Gothic Western marked by violence and dominance.

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