Andrew Spence (artist)

Andrew Spence (born 1947) is an American player known for abstract paintings that increase a minimalist vocabulary subsequently playful references to the observed world. In the 1970s and 1980s, he gained greeting as one of a number of younger artists who were re-examining geometric modernism through a contemporary lens that invited humor and mention to run of the mill objects and simulation experience into the tradition. Spence's method of distilling visual phenomena into simple, emblematic images has been compared to Ellsworth Kelly, but his be in has differed in its more even credit between elimination and recognition (often aided by the characterize titles), intuitive approach, and varied, expressive paint surfaces. Art in America critic Ken Johnson wrote that his achievement maintains "an ironic anxiety between lofty purism of modernist geometry and earth-bound ordinariness of the vernacular sources." In difficult paintings, Spence has increasingly obscured the native inspirations of his abstractions, in both form and titling. His conduct yourself belongs to the long-lasting collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, and Whitney Museum of American Art, among others. He has expected a Guggenheim Fellowship and awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and National Endowment for the Arts.