Works
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And check out Joanna and my podcast, Artsplanations on all major podcasting platforms.
Twitter @ndrewmalczewski
Instagram@ https://www.instagram.com/andrewmalczewski
Youtube@ https://youtube.com/channel/UCStxvqR06WlNKJ8-uYluB2ww
podcast@ http://www.artsplanations.com/
TSG @ Sugarland Museum of Art
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The piece I had at the Sugarland Museum of Art.
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G. 29h x 24w x 16d found wood, nails, paint
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Murmuration
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The starling is a common black bird found everywhere in North America. Collectively when they flock together a murmuration form. They move in an undulating rhythmic pattern, with thousands of them flowing around as a group. They become this amazing, breath stealing, swooping, pulsating, harmonized whole that defies nature while defining it.
They are a community that is working together to succeed at something that seems impossible. This sculpture represents ATU, a place “where students succeed, innovation thrives, and community's flourish.”
They are a community that is working together to succeed at something that seems impossible. This sculpture represents ATU, a place “where students succeed, innovation thrives, and community's flourish.”
Swings and Ladders
Swings and Ladders is an exhibition of Andrews work and that of Jesse Baraza, to see the show visit
https://grim18tens.wixsite.com/swings-and-ladders
For Andrew the ladders are an important icon in this series of work. When he was a young boy, for about two summers, he and his friends built 15 to 20 tree forts all around their neighborhood. Any tree could be a fort so long as they could build a ladder onto it. They scavenged wood from old pallets and construction sites. They scavenged nails and paint from garages and sheds. Back then, the ladder signified that whatever tree it was hammered into was no longer a tree, it was something so much more. It was a place where they would play, it was their castle tower, their defense against invading hordes and armies, where their imagination would run wild. For these sculptures, the ladder also represents growth and the idea of the child who looks forward to adulthood without realizing what that means, and adult who looks back on childhood with full understanding.
https://grim18tens.wixsite.com/swings-and-ladders
For Andrew the ladders are an important icon in this series of work. When he was a young boy, for about two summers, he and his friends built 15 to 20 tree forts all around their neighborhood. Any tree could be a fort so long as they could build a ladder onto it. They scavenged wood from old pallets and construction sites. They scavenged nails and paint from garages and sheds. Back then, the ladder signified that whatever tree it was hammered into was no longer a tree, it was something so much more. It was a place where they would play, it was their castle tower, their defense against invading hordes and armies, where their imagination would run wild. For these sculptures, the ladder also represents growth and the idea of the child who looks forward to adulthood without realizing what that means, and adult who looks back on childhood with full understanding.
Fort
I Have been working with different ideas and concepts surrounding imagination memories. I've been drawing a lot recently on memories of childhood and that sense of uninhibited joy that kids have and the fact that kids tend to have no filter. I have been making work that is rooted in my memories of childhood.
For the series “Fort” I'm drawing directly on a particular time, the summer my friends and I must have built fifteen to twenty different tree forts all around our neighborhood. If there was an empty lot that had trees in it, we built a tree fort. We would scavenge wood, nails, hardware and paint. Then we would put them together with the things we could find. We would build a fort then play games in them, pirates, soldiers, and other things those young boys play. Then move on and build a new fort to play the same games.\
I draw on those kinds of memories and try to put that sense of wonder and enjoyment into my work. When I make objects the objects themselves are made to inhabit and incorporate that sense of play, imagination and freedom. It is fantastical and wondrous, something that brings cheer and joy, and isn't necessarily a thing recognized, but invokes those feelings
For the series “Fort” I'm drawing directly on a particular time, the summer my friends and I must have built fifteen to twenty different tree forts all around our neighborhood. If there was an empty lot that had trees in it, we built a tree fort. We would scavenge wood, nails, hardware and paint. Then we would put them together with the things we could find. We would build a fort then play games in them, pirates, soldiers, and other things those young boys play. Then move on and build a new fort to play the same games.\
I draw on those kinds of memories and try to put that sense of wonder and enjoyment into my work. When I make objects the objects themselves are made to inhabit and incorporate that sense of play, imagination and freedom. It is fantastical and wondrous, something that brings cheer and joy, and isn't necessarily a thing recognized, but invokes those feelings
A big thank you to the River Valley Art Center for hosting this exhibition.
beginning of some new work
this is a piece I made as i work towards a new series of sculpture
Reddot @ Bluestar Contemporary
I am very thankful to have been able to participate in the Reddot artshow and sell this sculpture.
State of Sculpture @ San Angelo Museum of Fine Art
I was delighted to participate in the show "State of Sculpture" at the San Angelo Museum of Fine Art. there were over 90 artist including some friends of mine like, Greg Reuter, Jack Gron, Sarah Hirneisen, Roger Colombik and many others.
I wasn't able to get pics of all the pieces i thought were great in the show because the opening was packed with artist and patrons.
Animal Alphabets and Mugs
Joanna and I partnered up with local business Small Town Nutrition to exhibit some of our work.
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"American Favela"
me with American Favela no.11 at Sculpture TODAY at the Dock Space Gallery in San Antonio TX
American Favela no.9, wood, steel, tarpaulin, bike tire, acrylic paint. 36 x 18 x 48, 2021
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American Favela no.1, wood, steel, tarpaulin, bike tire, acrylic paint.12x12x 28, 2021
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American Favela no.11, wood, steel, tarpaulin, bike tire, acrylic paint. 9x9x 20, 2021
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This series of works is titled the American Favela, I started this series because I saw the growing tent communities in San Antonio and Austin. As a young man I spent almost 2 years living in a van and on friends couches. I know firsthand that the causes and solutions to homelessness are not simple or easy. At the same time there was the national discussion on job loss due to the pandemic, minimum wage, housing and student loan forgiveness. Among my friends (artist, contractors, and gig workers) there was a lot of pessimism and uncertainty over what the future would bring, and there was also a lot of optimism that things are getting better.
A favela is a Brazilian Slum that has experienced governmental neglect. A shanty town of closely pact tenements piled on top of each other. My experience of the favela is in pop media and google images. Pictures of buildings painted bright colors but no actual experience or understanding of a Brazilians life lived in a favela. So for me they are a city of pessimism and uncertainty painted in optimism. When I look at my own country, my own life and wonder what is the American favela? Perhaps its more than half of Americans living paycheck to paycheck with no real savings or financial safety net. Those Americans, who with one injury could plunge them into life changing debt. Living in rented apartments and houses barely able to make ends meet. Here there are no bright painted tenements to signify the poverty line. When I see the growth of tent communities under overpass and hear how homelessness rises I know that if it wasn’t for good friends and good family that could have been my life. This body of work is my reflection on it.
Cone 6 Ceramics
These ceramics pieces were fired to cone 6 with the commercial glaze Tide Pool, This was Joanna and my first firming in our kiln, we used a commercial glaze to fill most of the kiln and then added a bunch of test pieces so we can find some good base clear glazes.
"Happy in the time of Covid"
airdry clay sculptures from Ms. Arricastres class, Audio from Ms. Arricastres class, glass bowl and video. 2021
This year for Gracias San Antonio I Worked with Ms. Arricastres class to create a work of art that represents Happy in the time of Covid. My role in this project is as a curator, to help highlight what the kids have done and to organize their works of art in a way that elevates the concept that they started with. I had this idea of putting their work together inside of this candy jar. I have this memory of when I was a kid, getting candy and how much happiness that brought me. I remember going to the mall, to the candy stores and being able to scoop in and get bags of these bright, wonderful candies. Using the candy jar I am conveying that same sense of joy and wonder that we as adults lose a little bit of.
This sculpture is not meant to sit on a shelf, it is meant to be picked up and viewed from all sides, but the piece is a product of 2020, of Covid-19. We are distanced because of this pandemic so our interaction is through video. The video speaks to the changes we have made to battle the pandemic, to how we interact with art and people through a digital screen.
About Gracias SA.- https://prek4sa.com/wp-content/upload...
This year Pre-K 4 SA students say “Gracias, San Antonio,” with an online auction to benefit St. PJ’s Children’s Home. -https://www.32auctions.com/graciassan...
This sculpture is not meant to sit on a shelf, it is meant to be picked up and viewed from all sides, but the piece is a product of 2020, of Covid-19. We are distanced because of this pandemic so our interaction is through video. The video speaks to the changes we have made to battle the pandemic, to how we interact with art and people through a digital screen.
About Gracias SA.- https://prek4sa.com/wp-content/upload...
This year Pre-K 4 SA students say “Gracias, San Antonio,” with an online auction to benefit St. PJ’s Children’s Home. -https://www.32auctions.com/graciassan...
I and Us and You
Acrylic on panel. 24 x 36 x 2, 2020
This Diptych is of me and my fiancée Joanna. this piece is about us and the viewer, and what it means to be the viewer. Our gaze turns from each other and we see them, our expressions are wistful and happy, but is it because we see them or is it the conversation we are having. Is the viewer being invited into the conversation or are they interrupting?
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Pugugly
Cast Aluminum and Acrylic. 5 x 10 x 5, 2020
Contemporary kitsch of modern mythology, Pugugly is my concept of what a contemporary mythological creature would look like as an analogy of a type of modern masculinity. Slightly self-referential and embracing a tongue-in-cheek whit, this piece is looks at the idea of man as a thing that is so ugly it cute.
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start of a new series of small sculptures
