Artist: Andrew Ballstaedt
Title: Beautiful Women Across the Sea
Medium: Acrylic, pen, and pencil on paper mounted to board
Dimensions: 44 x 30 inches
Price: $7000
Artist Statement: This is my take on the human figure, mixed with my naïve city and ocean style—as if a child were drawing something complex.
Artist Bio: I like art that’s simple and naïve and childlike—but with a kind of subtle sophistication. I care about space, color, and line. I do abstract art that looks like abstract art, and I also do simple house and city paintings with monsters. I don’t avoid the human figure—sometimes I use traditional human-like figures, and other times I add a monster or dinosaur-like figure that has sentient, human-like feelings. Almost all of my paintings are narrative in some way. I often have words or phrases written somewhere in the painting that add to the narrative.
