Andy Meerow
Andy Meerow
b. 1980
Lives and works in New York
Andy Meerow’s artworks interrogate tensions between legibility and abstraction, originality and derivation, elegance and crudeness. He works primarily with found texts and images, often pointing to the ways fine art vocabularies are repurposed by everyday commerce, and vice versa, resulting in a critical yet humorous flattening of high and low content. The diptych, with its inherent bifurcation of the picture plane, is a primary device for describing these tensions. The juxtaposition of one panel with another implies modularity and enacts a conflict. Through this frequent reorientation and reshuffling, Meerow undercuts his own intentionality and destabilizes meaning. Instead, he opts for an openness which calls to mind the urban landscape, that unreliable muse which suspends us among codified messages abundant beyond navigation.
EDUCATION
| 2012 | MFA Virginia Commonwealth University |
| 2003 | BA Fine Art, Wesleyan University |
| 2001 | Tyler School of Art, Rome, Italy |
SELECTED SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
| 2021 | Haze Machine, Bodega (Derosia), New York, NY (with Rose Marcus) |
| 2019 | Man In My Table, La Kaje, Brooklyn, NY (with Rose Marcus) |
| 2016 | Openers, Bodega (Derosia), New York, NY And Now, Dallas, TX |
| 2014 | Lying in a Field, Levy Delval, Brussels, BE Blackberries, Bodega (Derosia), New York, NY Lion King, Essex Flowers, New York, NY |
| 2012 | Cafe, Recess, New York, NY (with Rose Marcus) |
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
| 2023 | Brick Wall, Derosia at Bel Ami, Los Angeles, CA As It Stands, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2022 | We didn’t ask permission, we just did it ..., Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, MO Napkin Brain, Local1, Mexico City, Mexico |
| 2017 | What Would the Community Think?, curated by Tim Gentles, Hotel Art Pavillion, Brooklyn, NY Loss for Words, Brooklyn Academy of Museum, Brooklyn, NY Alluring shapes, temping spaces (curated by Domenico de Chirico), Galerie Eva Meyer, Paris, France Lentils, Ramiken, New York, NY |
| 2016 | 189 Beach 96th St, Queens, Organized by Justin Caguiat and Irina Lotarevich, New York, NY Duplify, Kate Werble Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2015 | Text efter Tekst, Den Frie Center of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark Clorox/Envy, The Still House Gallery, New York, NY Freedom Culture, organized by Graham Collins, The Journal Gallery, New York, NY Comforter, Shanaynay, Paris, France 2159 Miles, Museo Britanico Americano, Mexico City, Mexico Mixed Doubles, Sometimes, New York, NY |
| 2014 | Haute Surveillance, James Fuentes Gallery, Hudson, NY Changing Table, Kate Werble Gallery, New York, NY Struggle, David Peterson Gallery, Minneapolis, MN |
| 2013 | Free Play, Stadium, New York, NY Shanghai Biennial, Brooklyn Pavillion, Shanghai, China Some Facts About Manhattan, Martos Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2012 | A Hand is a Gif(f)t, Reference Gallery, Richmond, VA Cave-In, with Ramiken Crucible, Puerto Rico |
| 2011 | Wax Apple, Bodega (Derosia), Philadelphia, PA NADA Miami w/ Showroom, NY The Dependent Art Fair w/ “Evil Freaks” New York, NY |
| 2010 | NADA Miami w/ “Booooooth” Miami, FL Brucennial, Bruce High Quality Foundation, New York, NY Lean Harvest, By and By, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2009 | Giftland, Printed Matter, New York, NY Materialism, Real Fine Arts, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2008 | The Dark Fair, Swiss Institute, New York, NY Abandoned Plot, Key Foods Parking Lot, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2007 | Wu-Tang/Googolplex, Gavin Brown’s Passerby, New York, NY |
| 2005 | Put It in Your Mouth, Rivington Arms Gallery, New York, NY |
SELECTED PRESS
FIAC and Paris Internationale, Sabrina Tarasoff, Art Agenda, October 2016
Andy Meerow at AND NOW, ARTnews, June 2016
“Freedom Culture” at Journal Gallery, Katelynn Mills, Artcritical, July 14, 2015
Comforter at Shanaynay, Contemporary Art Daily, April 2015
Changing Table at Kate Werble, Andrew Russeth, Gallerist NY, July 23, 2014
Stop By Essex Flowers, Simone Krug, Kaleidoscope, May 6, 2014
Looking Back on 2011 with 15 Artworks that Feature Text, Andrew Russeth, Gallerist NY, December 2011
Town and Country, Michael Miller, The New York Observer, August 2, 2011
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
| 2014 | Keyholder Resident, Lower East Side Printshop, New York, NY |
| 2012 | Recess Activities, New York, NY |