Andy Mercer

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City: Lancaster
Country: United Kingdom

Joined: Oct 2007

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“Andy Mercer is an award winning and published artist from Lancaster. An artist whose work is often derived from the uncompromising urban and rural landscapes in which he lives. His eye is attracted by all the multi-sensory devices of nature and mankind, he enjoys building complex realities rich in the patterns and rhythms of suburbia, an interweaving line describing itself around a plane, that pivots around like the wind and the rain constantly changing and giving an organic picture that weaves into a vision of the very fabric of society.

Discovering Mercer’s art work and in particular his series of cityscapes it is easy to see the comparison with Paul Klee, the calligraphic work of Miro and the colour of Kandinsky. Klee’s concepts of the Pedagogical Sketchbook, of taking a line for a walk, here we are walking the line with Mercer as he explores his world, the lines overlap, entwine and ensnare, they repeat and form shapes, they are given identities, colours, motifs, symbols of the streets, the culture and sub-culture of the northern metro centres. There seems to be some natural evolutionary law at work defining the essence of the place.

Mercer is of the present, he is loud, silent, happy, manic, yet wonderfully sane like life full of fabulous contrasts and contradictions. He enjoys the textures and imagery surrounding us on the streets, the rusting metals, graffiti, rough concrete, street signs, torn weather swept posters and billboards, peeling and fading, revealing layers that create entirely new images, unplanned and unpredicted the raw material of our recycled, re-used re-invented world, and like all artists there is the social commentator with a powerful message and a radical thought.

Mercer’s layers of line, shape, colour, graffito, and personal mark-making are crafted into an atmospheric patchwork of city life. He clearly loves to experiment and investigate media and relishes every nuance of the canvas.”

Richard Sunderland – Inside Solo Magazine

“I live in a house in suburbia and drive a car.
I’m a radical in my own living room.

The landscapes of our time are not merely seen with the naked eye, but also include the mysteries of nature as revealed by science, and the ever changing images of the media.

AndyLand isn’t quite abstract and isn’t quite real. The real wants to be abstract and the abstract wants to be real.

I divide my time between New York, Beijing,Los Angeles and Lancaster..

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