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. Painted in Paris, France.
Kitchen painting, 2023. Acrylic on canvas, 100x100cm. Painted in Paris, France.
Poulet adobo, 2023. Acrylic on linen, 55x38cm. Painted in Paris, France.
Oysters n razor clams w/ chorizo with the homies, 2023. Acrylic on linen, 22x33cm. Painted in Paris, France.
Poisson du jour, 2023. Acrylic on canvas, 46x33cm. Painted in Paris, France.
Gambas Γ la plancha, 2022. Acrylic on canvas, 100x80cm. Painted in Paris, France.
Chez Nous (Paris 19Γ¨me), 2022. Acrylic on canvas, 70x70cm. Painted in Paris, France.
Untitled (La casa), 2021. Acrylic on canvas, 27x22cm. Painted in Barcelona, Spain.
Untitled Island (Skopelos Greece), 2021. Acrylic on canvas, 30x30cm. Painted in Skopelos, Greece.
Les fleurs (still life), 2021. Acrylic on canvas, 61x46cm. Painted in Paris, France.
I like Gucci n Monica Bellucci, 2020. Acrylic on canvas, 30x30cm. Painted in Rome, Italy.
Loft near the Colosseum, 2020. Acrylic on linen. Painted in Rome, Italy.
A Night in Groslay, 2020. Acrylic on canvas, 24x35cm. Painted in Groslay, France.
Chez Camille, 2020. Acrylic on canvas, 54x54cm. Painted in Paris, France.
Stonehenge (study #2), 2020. Acrylic on canvas, 5x7in. Painted in Salisbury, United Kingdom.
Stonehenge (study #1), 2020. Acrylic on canvas, 7x5in. Painted in Salisbury, United Kingdom.
Alexander Calder in the park (study), 2019. Watercolor on paper. Painted in Paris, France.
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. Painted in Brooklyn, New York.
76 (Bedstuy Brownstone), 2018. Acrylic, charcoal, ink on paper, 24x18in. Painted in Brooklyn, New York.
Untitled (Williamsburg apartment), 2018. Oil on linen. Painted in Brooklyn, New York.
Untitled (Empire State Building apartment), 2018. Oil on linen, 9x10in. Painted in Manhattan, New York.
Flowers (still life), 2016. Oil, spraypaint on canvas, 54x44cm. Painted in Los Angeles, California.
Sunflowers & Kaws Hennessy (still life), 2015. Oil on canvas, 20x10in. Painted in Los Angeles, California.