Andrew Shea

These paintings are constructed loosely from my experience of walking this spring between my apartment in Fox Point and my studio in downtown Providence. My goal is to rediscover the feeling of these outdoor places—their lights, atmospheres, colors, and topographies—through the process of painting inside the studio. As such, the visual representations of these paintings are not straight-forward and objective, but oblique and affective.

The paintings often incorporate people, who are also ideated. These figures often look at one another and hail one another. Sometimes they seem to think or speak silently, doing so not through words, but through a kind of abstract paint-language of colored marks. 

Above all, I want the paintings to engage the mysteries of glimpsing, remembering, reprocessing, and recording—of struggling to pin down a series of moments that, once experienced, begin immediately and inexorably to slip from one’s grasp.