Andy Boot

Andy Boot is an abstract sculptor and painter whose work seeks the answer to the question: what makes an image an image? By considering commonplace conversations about aesthetics—such as the distinction of “Cosmic Latte,” the average color of the universe—and acknowledging the impossibility of a neutral space for images, he manipulates the viewer’s engagement with the narrative and networks his images emerge from. Like “confetti spam,” Boot seeks to discover the tactics for image-making that might make a composition worthy of, or understood as, “Art.” Sculptures and rooms painted in “Cosmic Latte,” wooden cut-outs that are smoothed of all hard edges, and monochrome canvases with scratch-and-sniff stickers are all part of this attempt to understand the systems of image creation.

Boot has exhibited at the National Museum of Capodimonte, Naples, Italy, Art Genève, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Denmark, and Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland, among others. He was featured in the Frame section at 2013’s Frieze NY, is part of the Artist Pension Trust (APT), and was awarded a New Work Grant from the Australia Council for the Arts in 2011.