Artist: Andrew Ballstaedt
Title: Temple with Monsters in the Sky
Medium: Acrylic, pencil, and pen on paper glued to canvas over board
Dimensions: 49 x 30 inches
Price: $7000
Artist Statement: Being raised Mormon, it feels natural that some of my art reflects my culture and my feelings about that experience.
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.
