Andrew Nordin – Threshold

I am invested in the problematics of painting. The pictorial and material choices, technical application, and various modes of presentation are the critical aspects I take responsibility for in my practice. I work abstractly, with an interest in pictorial invention and investigations of logic in pattern, and the tension between representation and non-representation.

THRESHOLD: paintings of rural decay raises interest and dialogue about the footprint rural architecture has on the landscape of Minnesota, and the paradigm of decay and renewal as it relates to farm outbuildings, businesses, and social spaces such as community centers, places of worship, and restaurants and pubs. As much as decay is a symbol of death or an ending, it is also, as any biologist would note, the necessity of renewal.

Opening Reception: Thursday, January 11 from 6-8pm