andrew decaen
about the artist
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Andrew DeCaen’s artworks use drawing, printmaking, and sculpture to examine rituals and habits surrounding the space, time, and manner in which we eat, prepare, and acquire our meals. DeCaen grew up in southern California, received a BA from the University of Dallas and an MFA from the University of South Dakota. His artworks have been shown broadly in the US and internationally in Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Columbia, Denmark, England, Finland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Romania, Sweden, and Turkey. DeCaen’s artworks have been featured in publications as Drawing magazine, Printmaking Today, and 500 Paper Objects. DeCaen lives and works in Denton, Texas where he is an Associate Professor of Art at the University of North Texas.
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artist statement
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Andrew DeCaen’s ongoing body of work explores rituals surrounding food. The artist makes artworks that slow down mundane experiences to linger in the smallest moments. They explore the intimacy of familiar experiences while using subtly unexpected tropes to ask nuanced questions about who we are.
This Breakfast series reexamines fragments and studies from other works to re-imagine the subjects in simpler contexts so that these little scenes can be understood in new ways. Each mixed media drawing utilizes printmaking, collage, and drawing to reexamine the materiality of the surface and implied spaces. |
