Andrew Sutherland

Andrew Sutherland's work excavates all manner of compositional form. Mining an endless variety of sources, he discards, distorts, presents and manipulates, offering a combination of form and latent content. His continuously shifting plethora of found sensory stimuli initiates an inquiry into where our interest in and understanding of form resides, and from where it originates.

For example, his linear "tape paintings” are created using a cast-like procedure where compositions are drawn from the packing tape holding cardboard boxes together. A stringent process of selection is applied, resulting in formal arrangements that resemble the grid mechanism that emerged with Modernism, now a pervasive device in contemporary art–here however, the forms are “ready-made,” suggesting a standardisation of form, relinquishing conviction in its novelty.

Sutherland has had solo/two-person exhibitions at Edel Assanti in London, Bill Brady in Kansas City (with Peter Sutherland), and ATM Gallery in New York. His work has been included in group exhibitions at the Nerman Museum in Kansas City, Michael Kohn in Los Angeles, and Still House Group in New York.

Courtesy of Edel Assanti