Address		Born
Andy Denzler Studio Zürich: Bachstrasse 9 8038 Zürich Studio London: 1-15 Cremer St.		1965
Phone		Fax
+41 (0)79 667 69 40 London +44 79 13 402
Email		My Website / Links to Friends
info@andydenzler.com		http://www.andydenzler.com http://www.likeyou.com/andydenzler

Education
2006		MA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art & Design, London
1999 - 2000		University of California, Los Angeles, CA Art Center of Design, Pasadena, CA
1998 -		Member of visarte.bvk
1981 - 1985		Kunstgewerbeschule Zurich, Switzerland

Solo Exhibitions
2008		A Day at the Shore, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Los Angeles
2007		Insomnia, Filomena Soares Gallery, Lisbon
		Blur Motion Paintings, Galerie von Braunbehrens, Munich
2006		Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Los Angeles Kashya Hildebrand, Zurich
2005		Kashya Hildebrand, New York Galerie Raphael Rigassi, Bern Mönchof Galerie, Wehrli, Kilchberg
2004		Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2003		Galerie Werner Bommer, Zurich Mönchhof Galerie Wehrli, Kilchberg
2002		Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Galerie Werner Bommer, Zurich
2001		Galerie Carzaniga + Ueker, Basel Mönchhof Galerie Wehrli, Kilchberg
2000		Galerie Werner Bommer, Zurich
1999		Mönchhof Galerie Wehrli, Kilchberg
1997		Galerie Schenker, Luzern Mönchof Galerie Wehrli, Kilchberg

Group Exhibitions
2008		Unnatural Habitats, Flowers East, London
2007		Kindheit, Museuam Rohnerhaus, Lauterach, Austria
2006		Frieze art fair, London Kunst 2006, Zurich
2005		Galerie Wandelbar, Gstaad Kashya Hildebrand Gallery, Geneva
2003		Art Basel 34, Basel Gallery Shafraz, New York, NY Kunst 2003, Zurich Arte Fiera, Bologna, Italy Art Frankfurt, Germany Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Galerie Werner Bommer, Zurich
2002		Kunst 2002, Zurich Arte Fiera, Bologna, Italy Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Galerie Werner Bommer, Zurich
2001		Galerie Werner Bommer, Zurich
2000		Kunst 2000, Zurich
1999		Kunst 99, Zurich st'art 99 foire d'art contemporaine, Strassburg Galerie Gluri-Suter-Huss, Wettingen
1998		Europe-Art, Geneva Art-Expo, New York, NY st'art 98 foire d'art contemporaine, Strassburg

Statements

In the last three years and since receiving his masters degree from Chelsea College in London, Andy Denzler’s geometric abstractions have evolved into figurative works which will be presented in this exhibition. His current paintings reveal a dialogue with the past abstractions, but are now guided by the speculative nature of perception in his rich figurative works. Figures referenced from mass media, photography, cinema and other areas of popular culture, are removed from their original contexts and placed into ambiguous spaces. Painted figures are gestural distorted by the movement of a spatula across the surface, blurring the identities of his subjects. While the paintings continue to revel in the physicality of paint that Denzler aptly manipulates, his works now embody the furtiveness of memory and observation through implied movement of paint and hazy features. In a recent catalogue Hans-Joachim Müller wrote: “What essentially determines these pictures is the perceptively critical elegance with which they undermine the violent act of seeing, their unfathomable doubt of that surety of perception...” This is Andy Denzler’s fourth solo exhibition at Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Los Angels. He also shows at von Braunberhens, Munich; Flowers East, London, Filomena Soares, Lisbon and has exhibitions planned for Gallery Mook, Beijing and East Link Gallery, Shanghai. His work is part of numerous public and private collections including White Cube, London, The Burger Collection, Zurich and the White House.

Choice of Work		Title of Work
		In My Mind | 2007 | Oil on canvas | 190 x 250 cm
		Figures in Motion #1 | 2008 | Oil on canvas | 120 x 140 cm
		Tate Modern | 2008 | Oil on canvas | 150 x 150 cm
		Figures in Motion #2, 2008 | Oil on canvas | 190 x 250 cm
		West Coast #3 | 2008 | Oil on canvas | 70 x 100 cm

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