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Email PageAndrew Krieger: Recent Works
January 11, 2007- February 17, 2007
Andrew Krieger
511 Gallery
529 W 20th St Andrew Krieger Outreach Platform for the Lending Library of Useless Knowledge (2006) |
Krieger's work is rooted in the media with which he works. His use of sensitive ink, gouache, metallic paints, photo retouch and washes combined with his varied techniques of incising, engraving and etching lends itself to the creation of these surreal and whimsical environments. Krieger has translated his background in printmaking and engraving into his drawings and sculptures, making his compositions rich visual tableaus. In these works, he creates a sense of nostalgia for another time and place: The drawings feel like displaced objects from a curiosity cabinet, while relevant and meaningful in the present context.
Through his creation of square wheels with sharp spikes and off-kilter tables with spindly legs, Krieger has created a surreal world in which everything has an inherent impracticality. In Outreach Platform for the Lending Library of Useless Knowledge, Krieger expresses a Dadaist sense of the absurd by creating a fracture of a building full of reading tables, a helpdesk, and stacks upon stacks of books; which one can only assume are full of a lot of nothing. A town of expressionless miners, empty edifices and unimportant officials, make up the world of Deep Ellum, part of the fictional environments of the future that Krieger has been developing for some time.
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