"Starting in 2016, I lived with a Mt. Wilson painting of Andy's because I was drawn to the seriousness of the play in the various yellows in the palette and the way the paint was pushed around with a quiet athleticism, an intuitive confidence. It's that stroke, coupled with a deep understanding of color, that I've seen over and over in the paint slingers. It's never the same way of course, authorship right, but always laid down with a knowing hand."
"We all have a voice inside that doesn't make a sound but we listen to, that wonderfully meddlesome root down there that will burrow toward an idea, maybe take hold and guide us to the precipice, point us toward the leap, that place of the new, if you want it. There is no easy way when going there. Change. Process. Shift. Yeah, the mountain stroke is still there: in the corners, in the clothes, behind them."
Starting in 2016, a Mt. Wilson painting by Andy displayed serious play among yellows and paint pushed around with quiet athleticism and intuitive confidence. The stroke combined with deep color understanding recurs among various notable painters, appearing in many differing, knowing hands. The artist's approach varies from sharp and slashing to fluid and lyrical. Early passages showed percolation and stewing that matured over a decade into a revelatory body of work. The paintings move the artist from mountain-based grounds toward abstraction while incorporating figures and reducing musical textures to single notes. The result is calm and wild work that conjures a new kind of presence and displays thought.
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