Life
Over the last few years, Andrew Agutos has painted a collection of still lifes and interiors. Inspired by Van Gogh bedrooms and Manet tablescapes, Andrew depicts these scenes through a contemporary lens by including his favorite pairs of sneakers, pieces of fashion, food and pop culture references.
More important than adding these recognizable visual anecdotes is honoring the spaces and cities where they were painted. He has painted them in New York, London, Rome, Paris, Barcelona and more. They can be identified by signifiers distinguishable to each city in the form of particular tones of light, as well as personalized architecture, furniture and floors.
Andrew paints these to βremember where heβs been in lifeβ.
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Spam n eggs (in Paris), 2023. Acrylic on linen, 41x33cm.
Kitchen painting, 2023. Acrylic on canvas, 100x100cm.
Poulet adobo, 2023. Acrylic on linen, 55x38cm.
Oysters n razor clams w/ chorizo with the homies, 2023. Acrylic on linen, 22x33cm.
Poisson du jour, 2023. Acrylic on canvas, 46x33cm.
Gambas Γ la plancha, 2022. Acrylic on canvas, 100x80cm.
Chez Nous (Paris 19Γ¨me), 2022. Acrylic on canvas, 70x70cm.
Untitled Barcelona (La casa), 2021. Acrylic on canvas, 27x22cm.
Untitled Island (Skopelos Greece), 2021. Acrylic on canvas, 30x30cm.
Les fleurs (still life), 2021. Acrylic on canvas, 61x46cm.
I like Gucci n Monica Bellucci, 2020. Acrylic on canvas, 30x30cm.
Loft near the Colosseum, 2020. Acrylic on linen.
A Night in Groslay, 2020. Acrylic on canvas, 24x35cm.
Chez Camille, 2020. Acrylic on canvas, 54x54cm.
Stonehenge (study #2), 2020. Acrylic on canvas, 5x7in.
Stonehenge (study #1), 2020. Acrylic on canvas, 7x5in.
Alexander Calder in the park (study), 2019. Watercolor on paper.
The allure of someone calling you beautiful knowing youβre not the first or last person theyβve said it to, 2019. Acrylic, charcoal, ink on paper, 18x24in.
Untitled (Bedstuy apartment), 2018. Acrylic, charcoal, ink on paper, 24x18in.
Untitled (Williamsburg apartment), 2018. Oil on linen.
Untitled (Empire State Building apartment), 2018. Oil on linen, 9x10in.