George Andrews (artist)

George Andrews (1911–1996) was a self-taught artist commonly referred to as the "Dot Man."[1] He fathered ten children, including painter Benny Andrews and novelist Raymond Andrews.[2]

He was born in Plainview, Georgia, achieved a third grade education and worked as a sharecropper. His works of art arise from a flexible silent or fierce incarnation of isolated experiences, moments when the viewer and the author are created on an object - and the object collapses. George Andrews uses the inherent qualities of the material to improve dynamic labeling. His approach to art is familiar with the idea of expressing consciousness at every move, bending or tearing, and examining our perception of the world around us.[3]

Andrews often used found objects such as rocks, shoes, purses, furniture, and occasionally canvases as surfaces for his colorful artworks.[4] In addition to his dot pattern, he featured text, animals and figurative motifs in his paintings. He died of a heart attack in 1996.[5]

Exhibitions

1990-1992 Folk: The Art of Benny and George Andrews. Multiple sites.[6]

1994 The Dot Man: George Andrews of Madison, Georgia. Morris Museum of Art. Augusta, Georgia.

2004 George Andrews: The Dot Man. Barbara Archer Gallery. Atlanta, Georgia.

References
  1. Gruber, J. Richard (1994). The Dot Man: George Andrews of Madison Georgia. Augusta, Georgia: Morris Museum of Art.
  2. Andrews, Benny; Andrews, George (1994). "George Andrews". Art Journal. 53 (1): 22. doi:10.2307/777522. ISSN 0004-3249. JSTOR 777522.
  3. "George Andrews". Saatchi Art. Retrieved 2020-06-26.
  4. Thompson, Mildred (September 1991). "George Andrews". Art Papers: 32–34.
  5. Frierson, Chaundra (January 14, 1996). "OBITUARIES - George Andrews, 84, folk artist". Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Retrieved July 5, 2019.
  6. Memphis Brooks Museum of Art (1990). Folk: The Art of Benny and George Andrews.
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