Profile
Andrew Litten
2007
Andrew Litten’s dynamic and gestural figurative paintings, sculpture, assembages and prints, express a strong interest in the universal complexity of everyday existence. Dealing with humanistic themes such as love, sensuality, fear, anger, grief and personal growth. (Anima Mundi Gallery)
“Art is a bad liar. Many contemporary painters aspire to a raw, self-taught aesthetic, but their rawness quickly reveals itself as cooked-up. Litten’s bears the stamp of authenticity. The meanings of his images may be elusive, but they work on our feelings because they are felt.” (Laura Gascoigne, independent arts writer, including The Spectator, The Tablet, Jackdaw)
Like Louise Bourgeois, Litten mines pain to vivifying effect and it becomes a force for connection. (Sophie Hastings, freelance features writer, including Observer, The Gentlewoman, GQ, ARTnews)
Like so many expressionistic artists, Gorge Baselitz comes to mind, in Andrew’s work the rawness is also the vulnerability. Andrew is searching for poetry, the poetry of living, loving, hurting and dying; the vulnerable, the powerful, the human. ( Dr Jane Boyer, Artist, Curator)
”I want to create art that speaks of the love, anger, loss, personal growth and the private confusions we all experience in our lives. I seek to create stories of authenticity that compress a sense of endurance of the human spirit. Compassion is powerful, and I hope for an unguarded creativity that connects with our shared mutual humanity.” (Andrew Litten)
Began exhibiting in 2002 with DICK THE DOG, Penzance. Was included in an exhibition ‘Nudes’ (along with Epstein and Renoir) in New York City which was reviewed in the NEW YORK TIMES and lead to work being placed in the collection of the MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM USA. Exhibited regularly with GOLDFISH, Penzance and at numerous international art fairs including Red Dot Miami, Red Dot New York, Art Toronto and Art Chicago with JILL GEORGE GALLERY. First major exhibit in London was at LIME WHARF in Vyner Street, with the work ‘Dog Breeder’ which was created as an anti-art statement and exhibited during the week of Frieze Art Fair 2007.
Was included in ‘No Soul For Sale’ an exhibition of independents in 2010 at TATE MODERN (turbine hall). Invited as solo guest at L-13 LIGHT INDUSTRIAL WORKSHOP, London in 2012. Exhibited with WW GALLERY at the 54th VENICE BIENNALE and with ‘This Me Of Mine – Identity in the Digital Age’ touring exhibition and symposium. Has exhibited in numerous international curated exhibitions including Berlin, Dublin, London, Sienna, Mexico City, Edinburgh, Milwaukee, New York City and around China. Recent solo exhibition 2018 was Arts Council England supported. Has work in numerous international collections including Milwaukee Art Museum
