Gallery Show for Drew Young

Andrew Young (Grad 11) has a new show at Catalog Gallery with some amazing work based on "lost and found adolescence." Thursday, January 12 – 29.

Succumb – I Was Unaware

Check out the video on Vimeo below!

Catalog Gallery is proud to present the work of Vancouver-based painter Andrew Young. His work currently focuses on lost and found adolescence. We are lost in our self-indulgent primal behavior, forgoing the morals and values our parents have instilled in us. In these images we reflect on our own experiences of these dark visceral moments and places. Our juvenility is found when we disregard our age and act on impulses, often finding ourselves demonstrating irreverent, self-gratifying exploits. Vernissage Thursday January 12th Show runs until January 29th FB event here: https://www.facebook.com/events/302389889805653/ Links: http://www.cataloggallery.org http://hedrew.blogspot.com/ 'Spontaneous in some parts and carefully designed in others; my explorative compositions are the backbone to the figurative rendering. The result is sporadic abstraction paired with hyper-realism. My technical focus is to illuminate subjects with areas of saturated clarity, while obscuring them with textures of the known and discovered. The work blends the authentic with the abstract in order to form a relationship between the figure and the intangible — between order and chaos.' - Andrew Gareth Young Video Shot, Scored and Edited by Vaughn Robert Squire

About Drew

Drew Young (b.1987 Victoria, BC) currently lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. He studied at The Victoria College of Art and received his diploma in Illustration and Applied Arts (IDEA) at Capilano University.

Young is internationally exhibited with shows in LA (Thinkspace Gallery), SF (Gauntlet Gallery), Tokyo (Amp), London (Rook and Raven), NYC (Re:Form Projects), Bogota (Come Together) and featured by Juxtapoz, Hi-Fructose, Booooooom.com, Supersonicelectronic and BlueCanvas. Young is the youngest instructor for the Federation of Canadian Artists (FCA) and also teaches Commercial Illustration at Langara College.

His painting accolades have brought him many curatorial opportunities in recent years. He’s the Visual Arts curator for TedX Vancouver as well as curator/coordinator for Snag — a weekly live-painting exhibition focused on illuminating Vancouver’s alternative arts culture.

For more on Drew see: dyoung.ca