et cetera
Stephen Andrews
recent drawings
April 7 - May 13, 2023
Paul Petro Contemporary Art is pleased to present an exhibition of recent drawings by Stephen Andrews.
"Most of the drawings in this series are culled from the headlines of the last couple of years. They are my way of processing the news.
"In spite of all the lockdowns there was an uptick in protests. People took to the streets in increasing numbers as if the stay-at-home measures were an accelerant added to already smouldering embers. The focus of the demonstrations shifted from the grievances against the health measures to police brutality, political corruption, unemployment etc.
"et cetera is often used to denote the continuation of some sort of series of descriptions. The drawings are a record of the current moment of an ongoing cycle of collective action… "
Stephen Andrews 16/02/23
STEPHEN ANDREWS was born in 1956 in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada. His work deals with memory, identity, and technology, and their representations in various media including photography, drawing, animation, painting and ceramics. Over the last twenty-five years he has exhibited his work across Canada, the U.S., Brazil, Scotland, France, Italy and Japan, including POV, a fifteen-year survey at the Art Gallery of Ontario in 2015 (with catalogue) and Aftermath, with drawings focused on the Iraq War, at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in 2018 (with catalogue).
Andrews is represented in collections including the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Belkin Art Gallery (Vancouver, BC), the Agnes Etherington Art Centre (Kingston, ON), the Art Gallery of Hamilton, the Tom Thomson Art Gallery (Owen Sound, ON), the Schwartz Collection, Harvard University, and corporate art collections including Torys (Toronto), Osler, Hoskin and Harcourt (Toronto), the Royal Bank of Canada, National Bank of Canada, TD Canada Trust and the Bank of Montreal.
Andrews is a recipient of the Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts (2019).