Norton Museum of Art 2025 Gala Auction | Hosted by Sotheby’s
Norton Museum of Art 2025 Gala Auction | Hosted by Sotheby’s
Ash Andrews
September
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Ash Andrews
b. 1952
September
Executed in 2024.
Mixed media on canvas
76 x 60 x 1 1/4 in. (193 x 152.4 x 3.2 cm)
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Courtesy of C O U N T Y
Andrews’ distinctive approach to gestural abstraction combines compositional risk-taking with an almost casual disregard for perfection, alluding at once to the sprawling geographies of America’s countryside, coastlines, and roadways and to the stop-and-start journey of the art-making process itself. Painting at different speeds and intensities, Andrews juxtaposes airy atmospheric effects and densely textured linework with contractor-style, rolled-on color. She works primarily with unprimed canvas and paper, ripping, tearing, sewing, and taping as she paints to discover unexpected solutions to formal problems while leaving the raw edges and roughness of the process visible in each finished work. Building equally on 60s lyrical abstraction and more recent developments in process-based painting, the bold insouciance of Andrews’ approach to color, form, and mark-making is unmistakably her own. As bustling as a construction zone or as boundless as the open road, the work is always unpremeditated yet infused with a sense of spatial possibility.
Ash Andrews (b. 1952, Santa Barbara, California) has held solo exhibitions at Shelter Gallery in New York, New York ('Sense of Place, Sense of Time,' September 15th to October 22nd, 2022) and at C O U N T Y in Palm Beach, Florida ('UNFILTERED,' April 1st to 15th, 2024). She has participated in group presentations at the Untitled Art Fair in Miami Beach, Florida (2022 and 2023 editions). Forthcoming exhibitions include 'DROPCLOTH', Bedford, New York, opening on September 27th, 2024, and 'OPEN WORLD”, a group presentation at C O U N T Y, Palm Beach, Florida, from December 15th, 2024, to January 2nd, 2025.