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Andrew Lakey
(b. Chateauroux, France 1959– )

Introduction
In a post-, post-modern art world where there is little agreement as to who the reigning masters are and even less agreement about the direction of its many divergent schools, California artist Andrew Lakey has managed a juggernaut painting career that continues to unfold in unexpected paths and in richly provocative ways.

As his recent works attest, Lakey’s fusion of design with hidden meaning delivers deeper understandings of the forces, signs and symbols that inform us that we are alive in a world that makes sense - in a world that is worth living in.

Lakey’s art makes sense because he creates imagery accessible at the primal level – seductive colors, sinuous lines, simple shapes - so elemental, yet so his own, that they appear recast in the realm of archetypes. This is an artist who can paint something as utterly simple as a circle and imbue it with such authenticity and original interpretation – that he can claim ownership of it at a fundamental level.

With an ironic combination of systematic, repetitive processes and a total willingness to be intimate with simplicity and unconscious expression, Lakey has forged new relationships between the formal issues of art and design with the deeper psychological moorings of human nature. Read more...

Beginning With Angels >>
5 Year Hiatus >>
One Heart >>
Silhouettes & Shadows >>
The Process >>