Anton Kern Gallery is excited to announce the representation of Scottish artist Andrew Sim.
Andrew Sim (b. 1987 in Glasgow, lives and works in New York City) will present their first solo exhibition, entitled Two pink birds with a gold nest, at the gallery’s 55th Street location this May.
In the new exhibition, Sim presents twelve new paintings with motifs ranging from hairless werewolves to winged horses, rainbow-colored monkey puzzle trees, and nesting birds. Through their expressive poses and otherworldly glow, these fantastical presences become vessels through which the artist expresses feelings of vulnerability, growth, and affirmation.
Sim pulls their repertoire of motifs from an unconscious place inhabited by dream images, classic archetypes, and sightings that have gained psychological significance through repeated encounters in daily life. Through the process of externalizing these images as artworks that operate in the physical realm, connections to the artist’s evolving gender presentation and desire for queer placemaking reveal themselves.
