Radcliffe

Born Connecticut, lives and works in NYC.

Andrew Radcliffe received his BFA from Pratt Institute in 1984, attended Skowhegan in 1984 and received his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1987. After over a decade in New York Radcliffe relocated to the Caribbean from 2000 to 2022. He lived and painted on several islands while working in construction. He presently works in a studio in Union Square. His work is comprised of oil paintings, watercolors and ink drawings.

Radcliffe has unpacked the fundamental aspects of pointillism in several early series of paintings and watercolors. These paintings, while being composed entirely from marks of pure color, convey the nuances of atmospheric color.

His ongoing series of small drawings are exhibited as large installations which display competing approaches to drawing vying for attention yet appear unified and surprisingly harmonious. He uses drawing as a disciplined yet liberating engagement into which he allows the exploration of images of any kind. As a result, the drawings simultaneously present multiple facets of order, disorder, figuration, abstraction, dreams, reality and humor.