Heart of Palm, 2025
Acrylic, collage on canvas in artist's frame
72 x 72 in (182.9 x 182.9 cm)
Julia, 2025
Acrylic, screenprint, coffee, paper on canvas
60 x 60 in (152.4 x 152.4 cm)
Julian, 2025
Acrylic, collage, screenprint on canvas
48 x 48 in (121.9 x 121.9 cm)
Moth, 2025
Oil and paper on canvas in artist's frame
48 x 48 in (121.9 x 121.9 cm)
Type, 2025
Acrylic, collage, spray paint, silver leaf, stage blood on canvas in artist's frame
63 x 60 in (160 x 152.4 cm)
Dreamt, 2025
Acrylic, screenprint, paper on canvas
44 x 43 in (111.8 x 109.2 cm)
Heart of Hearts, 2025
Screenprint and acrylic on paper laid to canvas
14 x 11 in (35.6 x 27.9 cm)
Andy Meerow’s artworks incorporate a broad spectrum of found imagery, language, and materials into the painterly tableau. In Heart of Palm the canvases are stained, painted, collaged and printed. Some pieces are composed dyadically, such as Julia (2025), in which an image of the artist’s distressed studio corner is screenprinted over a minimal, floral motif. Other works are built up indexically, such as the show’s titular painting, which offers a dense palimpsest of collaged newspaper and monoprinted gestures that obfuscate the news of the day. Situating themselves within the broader aesthetic economy, the paintings often point to the ways avant garde vocabularies are digested into the middle regions of consumer culture, interrogating tensions between originality and derivation, legibility and opacity, drama and design.
Andy Meerow (b. 1980, Park Ridge, New Jersey) lives and works in New York, NY. Select exhibitions include Derosia, New York, NY (solo, 2024); No Gallery, New York, NY (solo, 2024); Bel Ami, Los Angeles, CA (2023); As It Stands, Los Angeles, CA (2023); Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, MO (2022); Bodega (Derosia) New York, NY (solo, 2021, 2016, 2014); KAJE, Brooklyn, NY (with Rose Marcus, 2019); Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY (2017); Ramiken, New York, NY (2017); Eva Meyer, Paris, France (2017); and And Now, Dallas, TX (solo, 2016).