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Andy Meerow

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Andy Meerow

b. 1980, Park Ridge, NJ

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

 

2012MFA Virginia Commonwealth University
2003BA Fine Art, Wesleyan University
2001Tyler School of Art, Rome, Italy

 

 

SELECTED SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

 

2024

100%, No Gallery, New York, NY

Slanted Andy, Derosia, New York, NY

2021Haze Machine, Bodega (Derosia), New York, NY (with Rose Marcus)
2019Man In My Table, 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 

2012Cafe, 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 Music, 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 

2007Wu-Tang/Googolplex, Gavin Brown’s Passerby, New York, NY 
2005Put It in Your Mouth, Rivington Arms Gallery, New York, NY 

 

 

SELECTED PRESS

 

Andy Meerow, medium cool, Jonathan Stevenson, Two Coats of Paint, January 27, 2024

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

 

2014Keyholder Resident, Lower East Side Printshop, New York, NY
2012Recess Activities, New York, NY
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