When I came across Andrew Myers work my first thought was, this is something I would see over at Colossal, one of my favorite art and design blogs. Andrew’s work takes such patience to create, screwing in the screws, painting them, making sure they’re even and at the right depth, etc.
He’s great about showing images of his process on his site, these also give a sense of scale, which is much larger than I imagined. I wonder what the average screw count is per piece. I imagine it’s 100s-1000s!
Andrew is, for lack of a better term, a man of the world – born in Braunschweig, Germany he was raised in Ciudad Real, Spain according to his bio. However, he came to the US and attended the Laguna College of Art and Design where he graduated in 2002 so he’s not much older than myself.
This one looks like it has a backing of pages from the white pages but I can’t quite tell what that is, the perpendicular stripes create a cool look though.
I’m fascinated by his use of regular materials such as screws to create, using undulating patterns of different depth, these portraits that seem very tactile and whole. I also like to squint at them and see how consistent they look.
Look how cool!
Tags: 3D, commercial materials, industrial materials, ordinary materials, sculpture, wall art
megan
This is muther fucking ace.