Andrew Fearnside

I make art that connects. Art that connects us to place. To shared heritage. To our bodies, to our present moment, and to our practices of contemplation and community.

My work is centered in creative practice--an extension of contemplative practice. I draw inspiration from a big well: from the land, from relationships in community, and from the increasingly connected international world of post-minimalist, process-oriented painting.

I think of myself as a kind of activist--a soul worker, let’s say. Vision is my job. As artists, it’s our job to gestate new vision, birth it, and nurture it, introducing it to our communities and letting it change into the needful thing, over and over again. I take this on because I believe we need new vision--that we always do, in fact. I take this on as the best thing I am fitted to, the most frighteningly wonderful thing I can imagine, the best use of my impermanent life.

We’re remodelling our understanding of our relationships to ourselves, to our communities, to our global culture, and to the earth itself. We’re retrofitting our culture, because retrofitting is the least violent, the least wasteful, and the most living way to approach the redesign of the human structures we live within. ...

BFA Drawing and Painting: School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1993
BA English Literature: Tufts University, 1993
MA Counseling Psychology: Southwestern College, 2010

RECENT EXHIBITIONS

The Desert and The Fire: two-person exhibitions of paintings by Andrew Fearnside and Gail Gering. Albquerque: Page Coleman Gallery, 4/8-6/17/16.

Two-person exhibition of paintings and installations, with Abq painter Bryce Hample. Albuquerque: Open Space Visitor Center, 1/2-2/21/16.

Holiday Show. Albuquerque: Sixty Six Gallery, 12/3/15-1/9/16.

Doors For The Arts: Six Albuquerque Artists. Albuquerque: Doors For The Arts pop-up gallery project, 11/21/2015.

Simplicity and Replication: Wall Fungus. Solo exhibition. Albuquerque, NM: Zendo Art and Coffee, 10/3-11/4/15.

Shell/Shield: Wall Objects. Solo exhibition. Albuquerque, NM: Winning Coffee Company, 9/4-10/1/15.

Antidote: Contemplative Painting. Solo exhibition. Albuquerque, NM: High Desert Yoga Healing Arts Space, 6/27-8/15/15.

Propagation. Solo exhibition. Santa Fe, NM: Wild Heart Gallery, Southwestern College, 2/6-3/10/15.

Prototypes: Tablet. Albuquerque: home salon, summer 2014.

Archetypal Art. Santa Fe: Wild Heart Gallery, 2014

Shields and figures, with ceramist Judy Brey. Albuquerque: home salon, 2013.

Gallery artists. Chicago: Aron Packer Gallery, 1995

Emerging Artists. Chicago: Circa Gallery, 1994.