Urbis Artium Gallery Presents Ricardo Andreev

Written by Marilyn Kingsley Sunday, 23 January 2011 21:36

San Francisco, CA - Urbis Artium Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by New York-based artist Michael Ricardo Andreev.  Opening 5 October, 2006.

Born in New York in 1963, Andreev moved to Jamaica in 1966, and lived there until age nineteen, when he returned to the United States.  History occupies a prominent place in Andreev’s work, which is influenced by the work of Anselm Kiefer, Robert Motherwell, Gerhard Richter, Franz Klein.  His paintings on wood panels combine heraldic symbols with atmospheric land- and seascapes. Spare in construction and in color, Andreev’s work speaks to Europe’s and the U.S.’s tangled relationships to African-American and Afro-Caribbean cultures.  The work, according to Andreev, functions as allegory.  The paintings, he has said, “create an emotional dialogue within the classical realm of a collective unconscious.”

Andreev has exhibited widely in the United States and abroad. He has exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, at the Eickholdt Gallery in New York, and at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.  His work can be found in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art (New York), as well as in prominent private collections.

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