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Andre Bogart Szabo creates paintings and wall mounted sculptures that explore the transformative power of repetition. Embracing informal materials such as gravel, fireworks, and foraged materials, Szabo creates expansive abstract fields that are chaotic, expressive, and minimal all at once. He received his BA in Post-Production from Emerson College’s Visual Media Arts department in 2012. Szabo currently lives and works in New York. He was born in Washington, D.C. in 1990.
[…] Andre Bogart Szabo spoke to us from Brooklyn where he has had a relatively productive albeit strange summer. He has learned, as many have, quite a lot about instability and impermanence during this time. Andre is based in Williamsburg, Brooklyn but spends the bulk of his time in Red Hook where his studio is located. Even before the pandemic began, Andre was laid up with a bout of sciatica and found himself already social distancing simply out of necessity. But he has remained productive during this time and has recently begun a new series inspired by his recent interest in wall mounted sculpture and painting. He has been working with materials such as gravel, found objects – including things he finds in his refrigerator – creating work using these objects. Andre studied at Emerson College where he received a BA in video post-production before transitioning to visual art. To hear more about his career and how his work has evolved during the pandemic, listen to the complete interview. […]