Andrew Szobody “Cloud Copies”

Norte Maar

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Norte Maar presents the first solo exhibition for artist Andrew Szobody at its Cypress Hills gallery. The exhibition marks a continuing interest in Szobody’s work at Norte Maar having first presented his drawings at the apartment gallery in Bushwick in 2013 and several additional group exhibitions thereafter. Szobody’s recent work contrasts and combines the qualities of mass-produced objects and imagery with the qualities of the personal and the handmade.

“Cloud Copies” features drawings rendered from scenic images of clouds from photo-calendars. Using rudimentary elements: pencil on paper and gird for scale and proportion, Szobody methodically transfers an image from one surface to another, but also echoes digital editing software. The grid is left in place, acting not only as a nod to the timelessness of drawing as a practice, but as a sort of minimalist device that emphasizes the literal aspects of the paper, and speaks both of the artist’s and viewer’s limitations.

“I am intersecting a personal narrative of perception and desire (my own) with a mass-produced, iconic narrative of collective and commodified desire. I am interested in this intersection of complex individual experience and mass-produced iconography.”
-Andrew Szobody

Andrew Szobody (b. 1990, Honea Path, SC) spent his childhood traveling about the United States and overseas and went on to spend most of his youth in Chad, Africa, and France. He holds a BFA from Calvin College in Grand Rapids, MI (’12) and NYCAMS Exchange Program, New York, NY (’12). Szobody has participated in numerous group exhibitions including Norte Maar’s Giacometti and a selection of contemporary drawings (’13). He currently lives and works in Ridgewood, NY.