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2024 Ohio Artist Registry Juried Exhibition
Andrew Raz
Medina OH 44256 United States Home Phone: 2169052239 Website: Andrewraz.work
Bio
Andrew Raz earned his BFA in Painting and Printmaking from Philadelphia College of Art and his MFA in painting from Tyler School of Art. His works have been exhibited at the Cleveland May Show, New York University International Small Works Show, and the 85th Midyear Show, Butler Institute of Art, among others. He is also the recipient of the American Greetings Spring Art Show Best Picture and Body of Work.
Artist Statement
Over the past decade my artwork has been realized through digital processes with photographic imagery ranging from familial portraits, televisual images, film & nature scenes, and city and seascapes. My paintings and digital works increasingly inform one another, flirting with narrative abstraction to depict “real” world transition and its opaque undertones. The images betray their assumed roles and jettison the idea of photography as documentation. Guazian and ghostlike, they skirt the line between the here and now and can touch upon remembrance. With the world moving in seemingly endless directions, the dizzying pace begs for refuge and a new world built out of the pieces called for and recalled.