Leeds Museums and Galleries acquires work by Andrew Bick

Andrew Bick's 1999 work, Idiot has been acquired by Leeds Museums and Galleries, and is currently on view at Leeds Art Gallery, as part a display of new sculpture acquisitions.

 

Andrew Bick (b. 1963, Gloucestershire, UK) received an MA in painting from the Chelsea School of Art (1988) and has since shown extensively in Europe and the U.S. Bick's works are executed from a combination of oil paint, marker pen, wax, acrylic paint and Perspex. The works play with elements of flat colour, depth and surface, revealing the process of painting as a series of strategies or components within the visual puzzle of the whole. Bick's paintings call into question false opposites, and contrast hard geometric or blunt graphic forms with uncertain or dashed-out strokes or patches of scrubbed brushwork. Within the abstract geometry of his works, he combines matte and glossy surfaces, different textures, colour and 'non-colour'. His work has been described as 'gently disruptive and purposefully chaotic'.

 

During the late 1990s and early 2000s, Bick produced several encaustic works including 'Idiot', where wax and coloured pigment were fused onto a surface through the application of heat. Bick holds a longstanding connection to the Leeds collections, beginning in 2007 when he undertook a Research fellowship at the Henry Moore Institute, which resulted in the exhibition Construction and its Shadow held at Leeds Art Gallery in 2011.