Andy Denzler

​Andy Denzler weaves nostalgic photorealism with gestural expression in his wholly original style of painting. He achieves the look of his works—at once a paused film still and a sweeping abstraction—by alternating bands of unmoving, impastoed detail with flowing horizontal sweeps of his brush. The result is works like Returning Native (2010) that somehow suggest vigorous action at a frozen moment in time. “I’m principally concerned with addressing time and evoking a narrative through composition, light, and motion,” he says. “I depict time by applying a filter of blurred movement.”

Denzler has had solo shows internationally, including Random Noise at Fabian & Claude Walter in Zurich (2016); Suspended Reality at Opera Gallery in New York (2016); Between Here and There at Opera Gallery in London (2016); Breakfast with Velázquez at Michael Schultz Gallery in Berlin (2015); Just Another Day in Paradise at Brotkunsthalle in Wien (2015); The Forgotten Palace at Budapest Art Factory (2014); The Sounds of Silence and Distortion at Claire Oliver Gallery in New York (2012); Shifting Landscapes at Kunsthalle Dresden (2012); Disturbia at Michael Schultz Gallery in Seoul (2012) and more; along with group shows in Berlin, Zurich, Beijing, Istanbul, Shanghai, Copenhagen, New York, London and Los Angeles. In 2014 he was awarded an International Artist Residency at Art Factory Budapest. 

Courtesy of Robert Fontaine Gallery