Stephen Andrews
Stephen Andrews was born in 1956 in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada. Over the last twenty five years he has exhibited his work in Canada, the U.S., Brazil, Scotland, France and Japan. He is represented in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Belkin Art Gallery, the Schwartz Collection, Harvard as well as many private collections. His work deals with memory, identity, technology and their representations in various media including drawing, animation and recently painting.
Project 1) POV: Since 2002, Andrews has been using his own and appropriated imagery of the recent wars culled from his travels, conspiracy theory websites, soldiers’ blogs and alternative news sites. These images are rendered as drawings that imitate print media to challenge the lack of visual evidence in print at the start of the Afghan and Iraq conflicts.
Light Box Locations: Richmond Street 110 ft N/O Carling Street WS F/W ('Orange Alert 2') Carling Street 235 ft W/O Richmond Street NS F/E ('Explosion') King Street 225 ft W/O Clarence Street SS F/S ('Pink Barricade 2') Clarence Street 190 ft N/O York Street WS F/S ('Pink Barricade') King Street 285ft E/O Talbot Street SS F/N ('Orange Alert')
Project 2) Koreas: The no-man’s land between North and South Korea is the subject of Stephen Andrews’ landscape image which shows a landscape absolutely transformed by war and the uneasy truce between the two countries. This image is one of captured by Andrews on one of his journeys. Redrawn by the artist, it depicts the view from South Korea into North Korea.
Billboard Location: Stanley St opposite Wortley Rd NEC F/SW ('Koreas')
Light Box Locations:Talbot Street at Fullerton Street SWC F/S ('Koreas'); Talbot Street N/O York Street ES F/W - ('Koreas')
Project 3) The Quick and The Dead: This large scale projection was meticulously hand-drawn frame by frame using crayons on mylar to reconstruct and represent footage of the aftermath of a missile attack during the Iraq war. Though only 90 seconds in length it captures a haunting yet fleeting moment; not of battle, but of the type of confusion and loss suffered almost daily in today's wars that are more likely to be fought on city streets than in battle fields.
Location: Projected off the Grand Theatre rooftop onto the neighbouring building. Visible from Richmond Street facing north near Queens Ave.
