Andrew Sispoidis

Andrew Sispoidis was born in Boston, raised in rural Connecticut, and has lived in New York City for nearly twenty-five years. He is the author of Everything’s Fine, the founder of Kynismos AI, Dielectica, and Crawdad, and is a self-taught painter.

Andrew came to painting after years spent in other disciplines, all of them trying to get at something that kept slipping past language, past argument, past measurement. What I found was that oil on canvas — layer under layer, color buried beneath color, nothing ever fully erased — could hold what those other forms couldn’t. The history of the making stays visible in the surface. The work carries everything it came from.

There are no symbols or recognizable forms. Each canvas is built over months in dozens of passes, scraped back and rebuilt. What remains is what survived that process. I think it’s the most honest way I can make something.

SERIES STATEMENT
This four-painting series traces the arc that every living thing follows: emergence, expression, decay, and what endures.

Each canvas is built through dozens of layers of oil applied and partially removed over months, so that the history of the painting’s making remains visible in its surface. Earlier color states push through the ...