Andrew Kayser | Ideal Homes and Other Distractions | 2 September - 31 October 2022 | THK Gallery

Andrew Kayser | Ideal Homes and Other Distractions
"Using oil paint as the primary medium and the suburban landscape as a departure point, the paintings suggest a collision of inner and outer realities, an impression that meaning is fleeting and intimately personal. Focusing on themes of doubt, ambiguity, and contradiction, all interpretations are welcome, necessary, to create an almost cinematic suspense, an awareness that something is about to happen, or has just happened. In acknowledging that the world is not something to be known and understood, but rather to be seen and queried, the artist strives to create works that are poignant, melancholic, and beautiful."

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  Arrival, 2021
  160 x 180 x 5 cm
  Oil on canvas
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  The Promise, 2022
  80 x 90 x 2.5 cm
  Oil on canvas
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  We Do Not Live Here, 2022
  165 x 195 x 5 cm
  Oil on canvas
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  The Abyss, 2022
  80 x 90 x 2.5 cm
  Oil on canvas
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  Man With Dog, at Pool...By Night, 2022
  110 x 140 x 2.5 cm
  Oil on canvas
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  The Respectable Garden, 2021
  60 x 70 cm
  Charcoal and chalk pastel on Fabriano paper
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  Premeditated Lawns, 2021
  60 x 70 cm
  Charcoal and chalk pastel on Fabriano paper
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  Terrorised, 2021
  60 x 70 cm
  Charcoal and chalk pastel on Fabriano paper
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  Daydreaming, 2022
  110 x 140 x 2.5 cm
  Oil on canvas
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  The Pale Night, 2021
  110 x 140 x 2.5 cm
  Oil on canvas
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  There is No One Home, 2021
  80 x 90 x 2.5 cm
  Oil on canvas
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About Andrew Kayser

Andrew Kayser (b. 1975, South Africa) is a contemporary artist living and working in inner-city Johannesburg, South Africa. He graduated from the Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten (Royal Academy of Art), Den Haag, Netherlands in 2001 and went on to participate in several exhibitions in and around the Netherlands before returning to South Africa in 2005.

After a lengthy struggle with alcoholism, Kayser regained sobriety, resuming his professional practice of art in 2014. He has since held 4 solo exhibitions: Not Enough Time to Do Nothing (THK Gallery, 2021) A Moderate Bliss (THK Gallery, 2019) Christ Haus!! (Kalashnikovv Gallery, 2019) and At Home After Dark (Kalashnikovv Gallery, 2017).

He has participated in numerous group exhibitions – most recently TODO ES DE COLOR (The Curator’s Room, Amsterdam, NL) – and his work has been shown at a number of international art fairs including Cologne Fine Art & Design, AKAA (Also Known As Africa) Art & Design Fair in Paris, 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair and Contemporary Istanbul Art Fair.

In 2021 he completed a residency at the innovative Quartier am Hafen Studio House on the banks of the Rhine in Cologne, Germany.

Kayser shows regularly at both FNB Joburg Art Fair and Investec Cape Town Art Fair and is represented in collections locally and abroad.

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