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Andrew Hladky

Country of residence United Kingdom
Contact andrewhladky@yahoo.co.uk 07506884048

Solo exhibitions

2006
“I Wish I Never Saw the Suns Shine”, Tricycle Gallery, London

Selected group exhibitions

2009
"Postcards From Dystopia", Nolias Gallery, London
"Danse Macabre", Orbital Comics, London
"Danse Macabre", Nottingham
"Drench/ Absorb", Oblong Galler, London
"Apocalypse Now", Redwire Gallery, Liverpool
"Exhibit 1", The Old Police Station, London
2008
"Tomorrow People", Elevator Gallery, London
"Littleness", St Anselm’s Church, London
“Shadowy”, Standpoint Gallery, London
2007
“Aqua Art Miami, Lounge at Aqua Art Miami
“Wintry”, Lounge, London
“Year 07”, Lounge at County Hall, London
“On the Various Means of Reanimating Dead Tissue, APT, London
2006
“Hypertopia”, Gone Tomorrow Gallery, London
“On the Various Means of Reanimating Dead Tissue”, SevenSeven Contemporary Art, London
2005
“Losing Ground”, Kingsgate Gallery, London
“Wall To Wall”, Seven Seven Contemporary Art, London
“A Sharp Intake of Breath”, Beldam Gallery, Uxbridge
2004
“A Fine Line”, Euroart Gallery, London
“Losing Ground”, House Gallery, London
2003
“Winter Enigma”, A-Gallery, London
“Beautiful Things”, A-Gallery, London
“Graduates 2003”, A-Gallery, London
“Diverse”, Hanbury Gallery, London

In Andrew Hladky’s paintings, travel brochure photos mingle with art history to form sweeping, alien landscapes. Idealised imagery and the allure of escapism become nightmarish and oppressive as horizon piles on horizon, perspectives twist and change and the world is lit by a multitude of sickly sunsets.

His subject-matter is memory overgrown by the impersonal: sentiment and nostalgia deformed by blank, repetitive process.

Using cocktail sticks to apply neat oil paint in automatic, repetitive gestures, he creates petrified, sculptural landscapes which grow out from the support like pointillism gone mouldy, or like the slow accumulation of mineral deposits.

As a result, the image begins to distort and to break down from any angle but the front. Worms of paint squeezed straight from the tube populate the paintings, often threatening to over-run and destroy the image, and to replace it with a writhing mass of paint

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