Andrew Krieger

Leaping Man

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Leaping Man

oil on wood form, 48" x 60" x 8"

From a recent show at 9338 Campau in Hamtramck Michigan. The reference for this was a found black and white photo. I relied heavily on Williamsburg paints Ultramarine Blue straight from the tube and contrasted it with a yellow to help make it pop. This piece sat in my studio for about two years before I found the right deadline to push me to finish it. I'm glad I did.

Double Dutch

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Double Dutch

oil and pencil on wood form, cast bronze figures, steel supports

13"x 45"x 13"

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I made a whirlygig of a jump roper and this piece grew out of that. In my original whirlygig the jumper is connected to the frame of the piece at her hands as jumps. In the new piece I wanted to figure a way to magically suspend the jumper in between two ropes known as a Double Dutch. Which is something I was always fascinated with when I was a kid. I couldn't wrap my head around when to jump in. I could barely jump with a single rope. So this is my solution to my made up problem. The background is pencil on wood and projects out in the middle creating a knife edge that inserts itself between the ropes. The girl jumper is painted in oil in a forced perspective that hopefully helps lure you around the piece to engage you and interact with it. The jumpers are frozen in time but the viewer has to walk around it and move back and forth to find just the right sweet spot where everything lines up. I'm essentially trying to get people to "play" alongside the jumpers who are pausing just for you.

Here is a short video to help you understand the action and dimension of the piece.

This is the original jump rope piece.

JC HudsEars

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Ollie

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Ollie

Oil on wood form, 2012, 40" x 40" x 8"

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This is a portrait of a friend, Todd McNulty, at a new skatepark that was recently built in Detroit.

Sunday Sky

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Sunday Sky

Oil on wood form

16"x 60"x 10"

This panoramic painting is on a curved surface. I paint from reference photographs, and I shot this picture on a beautiful Sunday a couple of summers ago. The background happened as a result of shooting the reference shot when it was on my computer screen with my camera phone and a strange resonance effect occurred. It was a result of looking for something else and some experimentation in the reference that I got this effect, a kind of happy accident but one I was looking for. Translating it to paint turned out to be harder than I thought. But the way light effects a subject wether natural or manufactured is something I am interested in.

Night

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Night

Oil on Birch panel, 2012, 40"x 40"

This is a new painting, still wet and will be on display at the Detroit Artists Market for an opening on June, 8th.

Jake And Steve

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Jake And Steve

Oil on wood form, 2011 15"x 15"x 7.5"

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Here I am playing with perspective in a painting of my friends Jake Culkowski and Steve Nawara

at their home on Trumbull, in Detroits historic Woodbridge neighborhood. The doorway and the woodpaneled wall are close to you visually but recede away from you physically when standing in front of this piece. Its a bit disconcerting, let alone my friends who seem to be impatiently waiting for you through the doorway.

Billy

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Billy

Oil on wood form, 2011, 9.5"x 15"x 8"

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This is a painting of a friend, Billy West. This is actually the moment when I met him, I asked him to pose for me. A mutual friend who has known each of us for maybe 20 years or so, probably a little less, was blown away that we had never met. Billy has a cool bike.

Andy

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Andy

Oil on wood form, 2011, 15"x 15"x 8"

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This is a portrait (actually a triple portrait, but I wasn't too interested in making it about that. I just wanted to concentrate on the main figure) of my friend Andy in front of his now (sadly) out of business resale shop The Hoard House. The store front also used to be the gallery/design store Design 99. The form this is painted on is what I've been calling my open book form, designed so you can really stick your face in there and look around. The left and right edges of the painting extend from the wall about 8", while the middle where the painting splits is only about 1" from the wall. The photos tend to flatten out the image, which is why I'm trying to explain what's happening so much.

Andy And Stacy

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Andy And Stacy

Oil on wood form, 2011, 15"x 15"x 8"

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This painting is built like an open book, the sides form a right angle and the figures are projected out on a wire from the painting surface. The van makes lots of cool distortions depending on where you look at it, unless you are standing in the "sweet spot" where everything lines up visually.

Jake

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Jake

Oil on wood form, 2011, 15"x 15" x 7.5"

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This is a portrait of my friend Jake Culkowski. He is a musician and has played with some great bands around town. I believe he's currently playing bass with the Detroit Cobras, they cycle through members quite a bit, so I could be wrong. The portrait is painted on half a square basically, and projects out from the wall. This triggers a few visual tricks. When walking around the piece Jake seems to turn his torso away from you but his head toward you and the stair landing appears that if you get close enough you will be able to see it, and see where he is standing. I enjoy trying to activate some of my work in this manner, I think it gives it an added dimension (duh!) while giving the owner of the piece something that is almost alive in a way.

Trees Stand In Thought And Wonder Why?

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Trees Stand In Thought And Wonder Why?

Oil on canvas over wood form, 2011, 14"x 42" x 6"

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This is a curved painting from a beautiful day last winter. The snow was fresh and the sun was setting.

When Everything Was Beautiful And Nothing Hurt

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When Everything Was Beautiful And Nothing Hurt

Oil on curved Birch panel, carved wood, 2011, approx. 14" x 40" x 11"

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This is a piece I just finished up. I am trying to weave a specific but open ended narrative about this guitar player and a young lady on a horse. I think maybe she wandered over from a different piece to hear this guys song.

She Sings Sweetly

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She Sings Sweetly

Oil on Birch panel, carved Bass wood, 2011, 12" x 36" x 7"

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This is a painting I am exhibiting in my one person show in April at Paint Creek Center For The Arts in Rochester Mi. There is one is one more thing I need to do to this. I need to carve a little patch of green grass for her to be standing on. Then I think I'm finished.

Duel

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Duel

Oil on Birch, 2010, 14"x 36"x 14"

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Another in my split screen dilemma series. The shooters are facing off when viewed head on but as you move they aren't really aiming at each other. A hare is crouching in the landscape and they are physically aimed at that, but will the bullets travel through the painting? Did the painting conspire to make them shoot at each other? If they fire will the hares and each other all be doomed? Will they be frozen in paint for eternity or will they eventually fire? Its not for me to decide.

Sniper

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Sniper

Oil on Birch, 2010, 15"x 60"x 15"

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This is the first piece I made in a new series of paintings. I have tried to set up a dilemma of sorts, with a lot of different outcomes depending on how you view the painting both physically and mentally. First the painting is split in two and curved out toward the viewer, there is an action on either side of this split with a dubious outcome if viewed head on. But a lot of questions can arise from this. Will the painting itself stop the bullet? Did the universe conspire to reach out and interfere? If the painting is laid out flat does this change the bullets course? If viewed from the side you can't see the bullet or the soldier depending on where you're standing and everything is ok. Or is this just a way to pause time, and mentally save a life?

Cumulus Nimbus Rolls By

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Cumulus Nimbus Rolls By

Oil on wood, 2010, 8" x 22" x 6"

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This is another in my series, with the split screen. The characters in this drama, an Apache indian and a union soldier, are fighting to the death with only the clouds and landscape as witnesses. An arm and leg are movable so the viewer can change to a certain degree the composition and possible outcome of the conflict.

The Calcified Tears Of A Heartbroken Giant - Chocolate Hills, Philippines

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The Calcified Tears Of A Heartbroken Giant - Chocolate Hills, Philippines

Oil and pastel on wood, 40"x 60"

This piece grew out of a previous drawing I did called 'The Heartbroken Giant'. It turns out there is a real place in the Philippines called the Chocolate Hills that had a landscape reminiscent to the one I made for my drawing. After a little research on the interwebs, I was struck and excited by the similarities to the backstory I had made up for my original drawing and the local folklore. The hills individually are referred to as the calcified tears, while the whole area is known as the Chocolate Hills. They are grass covered limestone that turn brown in the dry season, and there are 1,776 of them, a fact I just discovered, and is of course a number of great importance in this country.

Waiting For A Stallion

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Waiting For A Stallion

Mixed Media, 2010, 32"x 32"

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This piece was a part of a show where notable people from the city of Hamtramck Mi. wrote down their dreams and gave them to different artists around town. This is my interpretation of one of the dreams I was given by Steve Cherry founder of a local radio station. In the dream (really a nightmare) while out in a wide open space a wild horse trampled his wife and she was stuck or buried in the ground and he thought they should wait for help and his wife who was calm, agreed. There was a little more to it but that was basically the jist of it.

So I decided to use as elements in my piece the horse, the hole, the wife and the wide open space. On some earlier pieces I was trying to do artwork inside artworks (smaller drawings or paintings that are part of the finished piece but have an independence to them), and I decided to do that here as well. I could make an entirely independent artwork using the concept of the hole that the wife is in.

So to create some depth and make an actual hole I made a curved picture frame and bent some birch plywood into it. I then cut out a horse shape and that made a kind of mat for my drawing of the horse. The bent shape of the wood distorted around the horse cutout which I think made a nice effect, and the curved shape of the piece also provided enough depth to make a diorama out of the "hole" (she is in a hole but not really, just a diorama).

She is now a wood carving smoking a metal nail for a cigarette. The horse is above her "trampling", the 2-dimensional background where the horse is and the more fleshed out 3-dimensional background where the girl is, is the same. Maybe a different time of day or year or maybe her stallion will never come to trample her heart, but she is calm and waiting patiently.

Heading Home

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Heading Home

Oil on wood

14"x 32"

Side A: Autumn Blues, Side B: Autumn's Child

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Side A: Autumn Blues, Side B: Autumn's Child

Charcoal and pastel on paper, 2009, 25"x 43"

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This piece I was trying an experiment of trying to do two separate images and making them into one cohesive piece. The smaller drawing is the same landscape as the one above except with a young family and the father strumming a tune on the guitar.

Heartbroken Giant

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Heartbroken Giant

Charcoal and pastel on paper, 2009, 36"x 53"

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Burial Of Kong

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Burial Of Kong

charcoal on paper, 2009, 32"x 32"(framed)

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This piece is modeled after the painting "Burial Of Count Orgaz" by El Greco, The image area is actually a shallow box and all the elements inside are cut out of paper or illustration board and arranged inside the box. For some unexplained reason I saw parallels between the painting and the end of this classic movie which I was obsessed with for a while. Kong represents a lot of things, including nature and the animal instinct in all of us. As a society when we kill that connection to the primitve or the unconcious animal nature, we are all diminished. We cannot conquer it because it is part of ourselves, either that or I don't know what I'm talking about.

Sunday Softball #1

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Sunday Softball #1

Oil on wood board, 2009, 10"x 16"

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Part 1 of a 5 part sequential series following a pitch being thrown to a batter on a beautiful summers day. I designed each painting to work compositionally on its own as well as part of the group. Parts 3 and 4 are the only pieces left from this series.

This 2009 painting is self hanging.

Sunday Softball #2

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Sunday Softball #2

Oil on wood board, 2009, 10"x 16"

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Part 2 of a 5 part sequential series following a pitch being thrown to a batter on a beautiful summers day. I designed each painting to work compositionally on its own as well as part of the group. Parts 3 and 4 are the only pieces left from this series.

This 2009 painting is self hanging.