+ OPPO - Opening Reception: Friday. April 13th, 6pm - 9pm Aaron David Smith & Andrew Anderson Exhibition Dates April 13th - 21st The gallery hours are Tues.-Sat. noon- 6pm Plus Sunday April 15 noon-4pm during the Austin Fine Arts Festival

Blue and Gray Composition acrylic on canvas 17" x 69" by Andrew Anderson

(e2) Stone encaustic on canvas 46" x 44" by Aaron David Smith

Gray Blue Yellow acrylic on canvas 8" x 63" by Andrew Anderson

(e3) Sun encaustic on canvas 46" x 44" by Aaron David Smith

Bella Vista acrylic on acrylic 15" x 39" by Andrew Anderson

And the Jungle Rings 1 encaustic on canvas 40" x 62" by Aaron David Smith

Untitled 2 acrylic on acrylic 12" x 24" by Andrew Anderson

And the Jungle Rings 2 encaustic on canvas 40" x 36" by Aaron David Smith

AARON DAVID SMITH Born Boston, Massachusetts Exhibitions 2006 Group Exhibition Level Contemporary, New York 2005 Group Exhibition George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, Ca Group Exhibition Los Angeles International Art Fair, L.A., Ca Showing works Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, Ga Showing works Scott White Contemporary, San Diego, Ca 2004 Group Exhibition Scott White Contemporary, San Diego, Ca Group Exhibition R.B. Stevenson Gallery, San Diego, Ca Group Exhibition Basile Gallery, San Diego, Ca Group Exhibition Larkin Contemporary, San Diego, Ca Group Exhibition Thread Gallery, San Diego, Ca Group Exhibition Studio 213, San Diego, Ca 2002 Solo Exhibition Space 21, San Francisco, Ca 2001 Solo Exhibition Cosmos Gallery, San Francisco, Ca 2000 Solo Exhibition Dalva Gallery, San Francisco, Ca 1999 Group Exhibition Cosmos Gallery, San Francisco, Ca 1998 Group Exhibition Artworks Gallery, Berkeley, Ca Related Professional Experience 1997 - 99 Artworks Foundry, Berkeley, Ca. (Worked with Steven De Stabler and Peter Voulkos)

Andrew Anderson Statement: I seek to create work that transcends time and culture, paintings that speak on fundamental terms and ultimately to everyone. Utilizing a reductive aesthetic with overlapping fields of vibrant color, the work functions on a base or primal level. The colors are at play often jostling for your attention. Biography: Andrew Anderson was born in Mexico City from an American father and a Panamanian mother. After a brief stay in Puerto Rico and San Antonio, he began his adolescences on the west side of Houston. A creative family spawned a creative personality, and he explored the mechanics of watercolor and acrylic before starting grade school. At the age of 16, while endeavoring towards photo-realism, Andrew visited The Rothko Chapel for the first time. He felt the emotional potential of abstraction and recognized the minimalist efficiency that did not sacrifice efficacy. Thus began the desire for a new yet necessary aesthetic and the battle with a new viscosity: oil. Andrew earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts with an emphasis in painting from The University of Texas. He has since established himself as a promising and practicing artist in Austin. Andrew utilizes a reductive aesthetic in his art. His fields of colors, while often formally creating multiple depths or planes, are the fundamental terms of his philosophy. These terms provide the platform for his visual language, not incomparable to a tabula rasa. The palette is not blank though; the platform consists of pure color where external noise has been erased from the language. What is left, this language of color? Blocks, chunks, merely matter undressed for the innate mind to interpret intuitively. This philosophy is the necessary achievement of his form. Consider how marketers and the media bombard our eyes and sensibilities. Consider the cultural iconoclasm this bombardment creates. Andrew gives us a reprieve, time to ponder.

Studies: 2001 University of Texas in Austin Bachelors of Fine Arts Awards: 1998 University of Texas Merit Scholarship in the arts 1997 University of Texas Merit Scholarship in the arts 1995 Received Best of Show, KISD Art Show Exhibitions: 2007 Hunting Prize (Houston, TX) 2007 Texas Biennial (Austin, TX) 2007 Group exhibit at Spazio by Lytle Pressley (Austin, TX) 2006 Group exhibit at Spazio by Lytle Pressley (Austin, TX) 2005 “Andrew Anderson and John Pavlicek New Work” at Spazio by Lytle Pressley (Austin, TX) 2005 Group exhibit at Spazio by Lytle Pressley (Austin, TX) 2004 Group exhibit at Spazio by Lytle Pressley (Austin, TX) 2003 Group exhibit at C-Studio Gallery (Austin, TX) 2003 Group exhibit at Burn the Box (Austin, TX) 2003 Group exhibit at Spazio by Lytle Pressley (Austin, TX) 2002 Featured artist at Austin Galleries (Austin, TX) 2001 Solo exhibit at Flood Gallery (Austin, TX) 2000 Selected for University of Texas Student Exhibition (Austin, TX) 1999 Group exhibit at Gallery Soco (Austin, TX) 1998 Group exhibit at Early Works (Austin, TX) 1995 Group exhibit KISD Art Exhibition (Katy, TX) Selected Bibliography: Miers, Clare. “Congress Avenue Vision” Austin Monthly Home, Spring 2007, p.72 Hensley, Becca. “The Illuminated House” Austin Monthly Home, Fall 2006, front cover, p.46 Bowles, Taylor. “Attractive Opposites” Austin Home & Living, August 2005, p.25 Hulsey, Clarissa. “Schematic” Tribeza, October 2003, front cover, p.55, p.60, p.61 In Selected Collections of: David & Anne Wermer (Austin, TX) Zulfi Jaffar (Austin, TX) Alan Cano (Austin, TX) Bryan Cady (Austin, TX) Tracey Overbeck Stead (Austin, TX) Eddie Safady (Austin, TX) Kim Ramsey (San Antonio, TX) Augie Garrido (Austin, TX) Robert Donmoyer (San Diego, CA) Mary Birnbaum (Austin, TX) Judy Dornan (Austin, TX) Mort & Angela Topfer (Austin, TX) Michael & Joanna Anderson (London, England) John & Diana Munoz (Houston, TX) Gay Ratliff (Austin, TX) Hilton 5 Fifty-Five (Austin, TX) David Cano (Austin, TX) Mark & Lindsay Stryker (Austin, TX) Chad & Kim Johnson (Austin, TX) Enma Rivas (Austin, TX) Brian Rue (Austin, TX) Amy & Jim Morrow (Austin, TX) Phil Caterbone (Austin, TX) Al Niece (Austin, TX) Ed & Judy Cheshire (St. Simons, GA)