Tag: andrew wenrick

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Color wheel 1

2012, pencil shavings + mixed media, 54 cm dia. (21 in. dia.), private collection, London, UK


© andrew m. wenrick,  2012

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Spherical series 22

2012, mixed media, 23.5 x 36.5 x 5 (9.25 x 14.25 x 2 in) and 34.5 x 36.5 x 5 (13.5 x 14.25 x 2 in)

The pages of this Michelin guide, at one time, provided a round trip gastronomic adventure throughout all of France.  The particular symbols at the bottom of each page unlocked the potential that lay ahead.  This guidebook has circled the globe, in addition to France, as it was dispersed among faithful users.  Particular destinations had blossomed with potential and now these nodes of exploration have sprouted through to completion and lay in decay.

© andrew m. wenrick,  2012

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Stars and stripes

2010 – 2013, acrylic and paper on canvas, 5.38 x 2.18 meters (17.6 x 7.15 feet), [50 x 40 cm (19.7 x 15.75 in) each, 50 canvases total]

The single most quality that helps us identify geography is shape.  Take those boundaries away and an ambiguity sets in blurring relationships that allow us to ground ourselves.  Take everything else away and the vastness and iconic territories are distilled only to the place names held within those borders.

This piece is about taking the context out of the 50 states in America.  Each territory is giving the same size canvas and on that canvas are all the places names from that State, randomly scattered.  From afar, density and color is now the gauge in identifying contextual localities.  Up close, the jumble of names become familiar and repetitive.

Stars and stripes, 2010 – 2013, proposed installation view

© andrew m. wenrick,  2010 – 2013

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Otto + Fran Walter Hall – Music Building

Otto + Fran Walter Hall – Music Building, 2007 – 2011, Muskingum University, OH, USA
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A new music building for Muskingum University. This 20,000 sqft. building is now home to a choral rehearsal hall, instrumental rehearsal hall, electric, percussion and piano studios, music classrooms, practice rooms, a music library and all additional support spaces. Tucked into the gently rolling hills of New Concord, Ohio, this new music building asserts itself as a modern dressing of the traditional building materials of Ohio, brick and terra cotta.