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exhibition/exposición
Galería Bordello, Organos 19
free / gratuito
Ukrainian-born artist Andrew Osta has been a fan favorite in San Miguel since 2010. At 32 years old, he was once San Miguel's youngest (and most handsome) artist. Now, not so much.
Apart from bringing grey hair, the years strengthened Andrew's artwork. He now lives in Oaxaca but paints San Miguel scenes because "Oaxaca doesn't have a characteristic landmark; it's difficult to summarize as an image." The artist paints archetypes. His dining cats are not ACTUAL cats, nor is his Magic Town geographically correct San Miguel. But they transmit the essence of the thing. "I am more interested in how a painting makes me feel than what it represents," says the artist.
He claims that he doesn't really know what he's doing, yet the paintings somehow work out. "I was told by everyone that I would not survive as an artist. Everyone told me to get a real job. I had no artists in my family, but I just knew that this was what I had always been meant to do."
As Andrew explains, "Oaxaca doesn't have a characteristic landmark; it's difficult to summarize as an image."
His collectors seem to agree. Many houses in town have at least one Osta. Some have collections of 10 to 20 of them. If you are not yet familiar with Andrew Osta's work, come out to the show at Bordello Galeria and see for yourself.
P.S. Andrew would be grateful if you share this article and invite a friend or two.
Andrew Osta
exhibition/exposición
Music, Magic, and Mischief
Bordello Galería, Organos 19
Casa de la Noche
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Andrew Osta
Andrew Osta, born in Kyiv, Ukraine, first arrived in San Miguel in 2011. At the time he was the youngest working artist in town. Andrew was strongly influenced by San Miguel's extraordinary ambiance. His artwork underwent a transformation: surreal jungle themes inspired by his travels in Peru and his experimentation with ancestral medicinal plants, gave way to joyous expressions of street dogs, dining cats, magical views of San Miguel's downtown, and flying mariachis. Osta's collectors, some of whom have dozens of the artist paintings in their homes, insist that the artist succeeds in capturing the elusive magic of San Miguel in a uniquely personal way. The exhibition isn Tres Fuentes will combine Osta's San Miguel themes with his complex surreal work, as well as some impressionistic plein air landscapes painted in Oaxaca.
www.andrewosta.com
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