Andrew Englander

Drew Englander (b.1985 in Ventura, CA) is a painter living and working in Brooklyn, NY.
His current body of work uses bold colors, distorted perspectives, and hard-edged chiaroscuro to depict an intimate world of clean maximalism that is at once skewed, personal, and familiar. His style is influenced by the things he engages with on a daily basis such as digital technology, sports and entertainment, virtual reality, and art history. The work speaks to the confounding nature of solitude within a highly interconnected world, and the necessity of adapting and responding to environmental and psychological changes.
Drew Englander (Andrew Englander, b. 1985, Ventura, California) grew up in rural New Mexico and lives and works in Brooklyn. Every painting begins as a small observational drawing made on an iPad with his finger. He builds the composition like an interlocking puzzle, working fast and gesturally, and the painting that follows is the exercise of giving that loose perspective a believable physical presence. What holds the two together is a contradiction he keeps deliberate: distorted space and hard edged chiaroscuro on one side, recognisable detail on the other. He calls the result contemporary magical realism.

Recent exhibitions include the solo show REAL WORLD at Woaw, Hong Kong (2022) and the group exhibition XMAS'24 at Galleri Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen (2024). His work has been presented at Phillips in London and at ART SG in Singapore, and shown in New York and Antwerp.

In 2023 Englander took part in the Plan X residency in Capri, where he made the work for his solo exhibition Stranger Than Paradise, which opened at the gallery at the end of his stay.