KATE ANDREWS

Kate Andrews uses a wide variety of processes in her artistic practice, such as refined oil painting, detailed and differentiated drawings as well as sculptural arrangements with which she carefully extends her work into the surrounding space. Andrews’ sensitive images shift between concrete and ephemeral, between material and atmospheric. Besides the compositorial clarity, there consistantly remains an aspect that cannot be entirely resolved when observing these works. In addition to reminiscences of photography and references to digital imagery, her nuanced paintings and drawings primarily convey moods and exceptional colour impressions.

Her virtuously and precisely executed oil paintings potentially recall long exposures while areas of canvas left blank–which subtly frame the painting surface–may remind of polaroid photography or windows within image editing programmes. In this way, the artist ultimately also questions the conditions of painted images in themselves. Again and again, allusive forms emerge in Kate Andrews’ works that refuse to be defined within the framework of a fixed figure or meaning. This open, temporary and fluid character is an essential aspect of the works by the young Canadian artist.

Kate Andrews (b. 1992 in Toronto, Canada) lives and works in Bremen. She studied at Concordia University and at the University of Guelph in Canada. From 2016 to 2020 she attended the Hochschule für Künste in Bremen and graduated as a ‘Meisterschülerin’ of Stephan Baum- kötter. In 2021 she had her first institutional solo show Unfeigned Hoax, Veritable Nonsense at Westfälischer Kunstverein in Münster. In the same year she participated in the exhibition Shunted Sculptures Fleeting Words at Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst in Bremen and had her first major gallery exhibition nuances together with Daniel Schubert at SETAREH X. She has been awarded with the renowned and highly remunerated Karin Hollweg Prize which is connected to an upcoming institutional exhibition in Bremen in 2023. This year the artist had a solo show at Galerie Kramer in Bremen and has been displayed in the group exhibition elective affinities at SETAREH Düsseldorf.