My work suggests urban and suburban, interior, and exterior spaces that question the imaginative, allowing the viewer to reevaluate their perception of space and the structural possibilities therein.
Lost Together @ Andre Kan
These psychological landscapes present the equal possibility of utopia and dystopia, change and evolution.
Shifting @ Andre Kan
The spaces we inhabit play a role in building our identity through memory and experience. In the process of deconstructing and reconstructing these environments, we revisit our past and reevaluate our experience.
Modify @ Andre Kan
Arrange @ Andre Kan
We examine these meanings and interpretations, and question the metaphysical, in turn creating new possibilities, new interpretations, new mark making.
Collide, 2014 @ Andre Kan
“Collide”, an old painting from last year, front cover of this year’s magazine issue “The Big Art Book” and recently reproduced for iphone cases and laptop cases with Gelaskins is a depiction of a collision that’s inevitably about to occure. The crashing of spaces blending in with each other, “Collide”, is seen as this freeze-framed landscape of two things meeting head on.
Xero, 2014 @ Andre Kan
“Xero”, depicts a fast paced environment, flying storage units, buildings that look like they’re coming for you (haha) I felt the need to make a yellow painting, something with more energy. I wanted to comment on the progression in culture and the advancing society we live in. I mean life is always “go, go, go”, “do this, do that”. It’s like a constant race. Xero, the name reflects the popular old video game, “F-Zero”, for Nintendo and is seen as a depiction of an urban race zone.
Plans @ Andre Kan
“Plans”, one of my first paintings this year, and also one of ten reproductions made into award winning plaques for this year’s Mental Health, 2.0 Contest hosted by The Council of Universities at CAMH in Toronto. “Plans” depicts a psychological landscape that shows the progression of society. The painting shows the future plans of our ever-expanding culture. Currently the painting is part of a Private Collection.
Reconnect, 2014 @ Andre Kan
“Reconnect” is a painting of my old high school. I hated that place. But it was a significant space in building my identity. Even while I was working on the painting all I could think of was how ugly our school colors were. The memory of maroon, Grey and white as our ‘ugly’ uniform colors will forever haunt me. The building itself has nothing but constant, reconnecting memories for me.
Shifting, 2013 @ Andre Kan
“Shifting”, a triptych painting done last year, currently hung at The Mental Health and Wellness Center at OCAD University, in Toronto. “Shifting” depicts the transition of self within a space. The tension and release, and over complexities of the painting questions what structure means in society. “Shifting” asks the viewers, how one perceives the psychological impact of being consumed in a space.
Haven, 2014 @ Andre Kan
“Haven”, one of my more recent paintings from this year depicts a vibrant, yet almost, eerie, cityscape. It is supposed to be “building designs” for a potential neighborhood/area that will one day exist called “Haven’. The title is also a reference to my mom’s old street in Scarborough, “Havendale”.
Image Credits
All Images Are © Andre Kan
Andre Kan Artist Bio
Andre is an emerging Toronto-based abstract artist. His work suggests urban and suburban, interior, and exterior spaces that question the imaginative, allowing the viewer to re-evaluate their perception of space and the structural possibilities therein. These psychological landscapes present the equal possibility of utopia and dystopia, change and evolution. The spaces we inhabit play a role in building our identity through memory and experience. In the process of deconstructing and reconstructing these environments, we revisit our past and reevaluate our experience. We examine these meanings and interpretations, and question the metaphysical, in turn creating new interpretations, new mark making.
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