Artist Statement
I studied painting and architecture in college. I liked the immediacy of the physical act of painting but I also was drawn to the rigid exactitude of architecture with its complicated, interlocking systems and precise mathematics. Learning physics and structural engineering was like learning a new language, and I craved that challenge. I wanted to be a painter and an architect. I wanted to do both, simultaneously.
My work is still driven by similar juxtapositions – the physical and the temporal, the epic and personal, the past and present. My work (and life) is an attempt to find poetry and meaning in these divisions.
Biography
Andrew Ondrejcak is an artist working in the intersection of film, fine art and performance.
Born and raised in Mississippi, Andrew studied architecture and painting at Savannah College of Art and Design and, later, playwriting at Brooklyn College under Mac Wellman and Vito Acconci. His work with experimental theater led him to a career in art direction and production design in the fashion industry where he became known for bold, large-scale environmental installations. He has been the creative director of special projects for Hermes, Vivienne Westwood, 3.1 Phillip Lim, New York and Shanghai Fashion Weeks, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), Vogue Italia, among others.
He has collaborated on short films and music videos with Tilda Swinton, James Franco, Isabel Sandoval, Shepherd Fairey, Rufus Wainwright, Darren Criss and choreographer Kyle Abraham.
Andrew’s theatrical works have been presented at REDCAT, Los Angeles; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels; Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans; deSingel International Arts Campus, Antwerp; Holland Festival, Amsterdam; The Kampnagel, Hamburg; and in New York at The Kitchen, BAM Harvey Theater, The Public Theater in Under the Radar Festival and the Guggenheim Museum’s Works in Process as curated by Robert Wilson.
In 2010, he reperformed the work of Marina Abramovic´ in “The Artist is Present” at MoMA.
Artist Residencies include MacDowell Colony (2020), Watermill Center (2018, 2016), Josef and Anni Albers Foundation’s Thread in Senegal (2017), Yaddo (2016), the Park Avenue Armory (2015-2016), Baryshnikov Arts Center (2013) and NYC's Governor's Island (2013).
Andrew was a freelance lecturer at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, from 2003-2013.
Contact
Management: Grandview
Tracy Kopulsky
Jeremy Platt
Advertising & Commercial: 11th House Agency
Marissa Dutton
Feature Films: UTA
Jordan Gorelick
Carolyn Sivitz
Jessica Kantor
Studio Inquiries
studio@andrewondrejcak.com