Andy Meerow

Andy Meerow’s artworks are often struck through, bifurcated, and mirrored. Across these dividing lines, his viewer is presented with a subject suspended between formation and disintegration. In Openers, a new suite of paintings, this split appears as a rip along the vertical axis of three paintings. Meerow inscribes a word on either side of the rip, and then further complicates these texts through a sequence of edits and redactions. Redaction arises as a kind of meta-writing, whereby the spoken and the unspoken are compressed. The rip in the paintings, which is actually a printed image, effectively refigures the physical gap in a previous series of diptychs. Here, in a classic swap of negative and positive space, what was once a receding void between two canvases and their respective texts is re-articulated as a positive image of central importance to the work.