Inde-Picks (Independent
Curator's Selection)
Raucous
and pulling no punches, Andy Moon Wilson's drawings have been attracting
much attention across the United States due partially to the masterful
drawing expertise that he brings to his work and partially to their raging
adolescent content. A non-stop drawing machine, Moon Wilson states, “I am
compelled to draw almost without cessation. Whenever I am not actively
drawing, I am thinking about drawing. Drawing is the spigot from which my
thoughts flow. The drawings themselves are artifacts of the moment in time
in which they were made. They are a documentation of my particular state of
mind, my concerns, preoccupations and attitude at that moment.”
The artist cites visual influences as diverse as gothic architecture,
Persian carpet design, modernist decorative motifs, industrial design,
T-shirt and CD cover graphics, and obsessive drawings done by both historic
and outsider artists. For Moon Wilson, “Everything is an influence. Every
response to stimuli registered by my consciousness since birth has
influenced who I am as a person, and therefore influences my work.” Both
highbrow and lowbrow, Moon Wilson's aesthetic is also formed by theories and
histories of international ornament and design, cartooning, politics, war,
macho weaponry, car culture, binge drinking, loner/loser culture, private
ranting, and random provocative crazy shit.
Hi various bodies of work include tiny drawings done on mixed media and
placed in Baggies. These provide a drug-like “fix” of punchy art to an avid
art fan or collector. Another installation of small-scaled drawings is “The
Dude Project,” in which the artist drew on hundreds of archival post-it
notes and installed them in the bathroom of Curator's Office space at the
Scope Miami art fair in 2005. He is currently at work on several thousand
intricate business card drawings that focus on corporate and personal
identity.
Larger works are mesmerizingly complex and feature a blend of obsessive
pictorialism, cryptic formulae, nano-architecture, and the occasional
appearances of his loser dude protagonists. Moon Wilson calls these
intricate works “meditations on architecture, ornament and craftsmanship.”
These are done on office-size 11” x 8.5” paper to allude to an employee
goofing off at work, albeit with extreme horror-vacui results.
Copyright © 2006, Andrea Pollan
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