Andrew Agostino

BIO:

Andrew Agostino is a new media artist who grew up in Montreal, Canada where he worked for many years as a film and theatre professor, instructional designer and at times, a freelance writer, photographer and corporate videographer. In 2010, he retired from teaching and decided to work full time developing his craft.

His passion is to combine and fashion a variety of media and media products in order to produce a single, more powerful theme that is not native to any original source. He doesn’t consider himself to be a photographer in the traditional sense because he never really married into any particular medium. He is not influenced by great photographers, but rather, by great artists. Specifically, his work draws inspiration from the pre-war, German expressionist movement. The work not the medium should define an artist.

Artist Statement:


Photography has always been a process whereby the artist has little control over the final outcome. The reason is that the end product is often the result of an artistic endeavor that is necessarily encumbered by technology and chance. Unlike a painting where one starts with a blank canvas, a photographer requires a camera, a variety of lenses and so on, and the random good luck that she or he is at the right place and at the right time for any creative process to take place.

My goal is to regain some of this control. The single photograph that is taken accidentally by using the right equipment is not what I am after. I like to begin with that idea, concept, theme or image that is festering in my mind (usually after listening to a piece of music or a particular song). Subsequently, I go out and intentionally attempt to capture what I need. I shoot subjects, objects, textures, tones and colors (a beautiful woman, a concrete wall, distressed paper, tattered wood, discarded trash, or a vibrant red sweater that someone left behind). Most of these pictures hold little artistic value and are not in themselves end products but rather, they work as my tools, my paints, my brushes to be combined and manipulat...

Recent Exhibitions:

Paper-mill Gallery Toronto, Canada, Sept, 2017

William Street Gallery Montreal, Canada, August 2017.

Etobicoke Civi Center Art Gallery (Group) July-August 2016 Toronto, Canada.

(Group) Gallery Mai – 3680 rue Jeanne- Mance, Montreal, QC. June 9/15/2015

(Group) Mainline Gallery: 3905 St-Laurent, Montreal, Quebec, H2W 1X9 December 19/22 2015

(Group) Mainline Gallery: 3905 St-Laurent, Montreal, Quebec, H2W 1X9 February 24/28 2016

(Group) Gallery Repaire 5867 St.Hubert Street, Montreal
March 03/23/2016

(Group) Gallery Le Canal 1844 William St. Montreal
04/14/2016


Featured in Vulkan Magazine:

Art Reveal Magazine (interview) (16) 2016

Bohemianism Magazine (2016)

Various Private Collections 2015 -