Artist: Andrew Ballstaedt
Title: The City
Medium: Acrylic, pen, and pencil on paper mounted to board
Dimensions: 24 x 31 ½ inches
Price: $5000
Artist Statement: This is the most fundamental part of my art—the root of everything I do. If I don’t know what to make, I start by drawing the simplest form of a house and see where the picture takes me. It’s also part of an ongoing series I’ll be working on for the rest of my life, called The City.
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.
