Andy Kehoe – The Brilliant Night

Andy Kehoe returns for his sixth solo exhibition at Thinkspace Projects, presenting mixed-media works and digital paintings featuring human-animal hybrids and spirit creatures in imagined forest worlds. About Thinkspace Projects is excited to welcome back Andy Kehoe for 'The Brilliant Night', our sixth solo exhibition together. Kehoe is known for his mixed-media exhibition work and digital paintings which portray human-animal hybrids and spirit creatures set in an imagined forest world. Heavily influenced by fantasy & sci-fi art, Kehoe is also greatly inspired by the Romanticism movement of the 19th century and their emphasis on individuality, emotion, and drama. Andy has a similar intuition when creating his otherworldly landscapes. With a focus on imagination and emotional response as the source of aesthetic experience, his fantastical imagery evokes a sense of wonderment by emphasizing the mystery and grandeur of nature and the cosmos. Show Statement: I've always been a night owl so the late hours have been a time of happiness and contentment for me. The world quiets and leaves me to my own devices. Having to live and work in a daywalker society eventually brought me somewhat closer to a "normal" night cycle. Somewhat. This show is titled, The Brilliant Night, and is an ode to my love of night, space, and dark forests holding passages to other worlds. This theme is also what I'm enjoying painting the most right now so it felt right to make a show about it. Artist Bio: Andy Kehoe is a traditional and digital artist born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He lives there today with his wife, Ash, along with their furry family of one cat and two dogs. Inspired by folk tales, mythology, and the grandeur of nature, Andy Kehoe creates subtle, quiet visual narratives through which he explores such timeless themes as love, mortality, alienation, and betrayal. In his richly detailed paintings on wood panels, Kehoe conjures a strange forest world, washed in the deep colors of autumn and populated by somber yet comical part-human, part-animal hybrid creatures with mournful eyes and sloping shoulders. His cartoonish aesthetic and whimsical cast of creatures tempers the sad poignancy of his work. Read more Toggle Painting Digital Mixed media