Andy Mister – My Apologies

Andy Mister is invested in the boundaries between mechanical and manual production, and a new suite of pastel on linen still lifes are installed in the gallery’s project room, and in concert with Matson’s installation. Mister’s latest works shift away from traditional photographic appropriation and move towards collaboration; integrating partnerships with outside artists to create source material that Mister then interprets – the content neither created by him nor found. Working with friend and photographer Pauline Shapiro, who formed and documented small flower bouquets culled from her garden in Brooklyn, Mister sets the arrangements against a seamless backdrop, keeping them unplaced in space and time, floating. Titled My Apologies, Mister’s exhibition is a love letter to the humanity of intimate gestures that compensate for unintended errors in partnership.

Andy Mister was born in 1979 in New Orleans LA and lives and works in Binghamton, NY. Mister received a B.A. in English Literature and Philosophy from Loyola University New Orleans, and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Montana. He has exhibited internationally at galleries and institutions including the Aldrich Museum; Lowell Ryan Projects, Los Angeles CA; Commune Gallery, Tokyo Japan; Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York NY; Turn Gallery, New York NY. Mister has been awarded residencies from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts. His works have been reviewed and discussed in Hyperallergic, artReal, Frontrunner Magazine, Quiet Lunch, Artnet, BOMB Magazine, Whitewall.art, and COOL HUNTING, amongst others.