Drew Curtis

Painting is a reality of its own that is a way of seeing, that frees me to see. I make paintings to unveil my sensations of life, to create a visual metaphor for my life experience. It is not a resemblance or like something, it is the thing. The real world of human machines spring into existence out of my subconscious mind. Real multi-eyed beings, machine beasts and walking buildings. A world of the imagination which is parallel to the world of resemblances, enriching this world with contradiction, humor, the arbitrary and metamorphic.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

“Scenes from Three Thousand Miles, New Paintings” - June, 2014. Partners International, 9 East 37th Street, New York, New York
“Dog Days of Acrobania” - August, 2012. Casa Gallery, Santa Barbara, California
“Wild Hopes” - January,1984. Independent Artists of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Selected Group Shows

"Made In March" - March, 2019. Gallery OneTwentyEight, 128 Rivington Street
New York, NY 10002
“Half Mile, Bushwick Open Studios” - September, 2016. 1080 Wyckoff Ave, New York City, NY. Curated by Adina Luft
“Inside Out” - June 2013. Kentler International Drawing Center, 353 Van Brunt Street, Brooklyn, NY. Curated by Laura Phipps
“The Independence Biennial, I, II, and III” - Summers of 1993, 1995, and 1997. El Bohio, East 9th Street, NYC. Curated by Drew Curtis, Vernon Bigman, and Molly White