CCCA Canadian Art Database

Stephen Andrews

Stephen Andrews is a Canadian artist based in Toronto. He is known for using various media to explore matters such as memory and loss, and technology, and its representations. By using a technique that gives equal weight to both media and message of his chosen topics, Andrews creates a space for reflection on our daily consumption of the imagery we get from what he calls "virtual or ether" media. The portrait series of graphite-and-oil-rubbed wax tablets, Facsimile (1991–1992) uses obituary portraits of men who have died from HIV/AIDS as source material, "reproduced from faxed images...the details are pixellated, smudgy." While Andrews' output prior to 1996 tends to be in black and white or monochrome, around this time he introduced colour into his work. The Weather Series (1996) begins the artists' extended investigation into the processes of colour generation and the four-colour separation printing processes. For Andrews, weather provides an analogy for the quickly changing circumstances of life, which he likens to his own experience of living with HIV. Andrews' method of homemade colour separation evokes both the 19th-century painting technique of Pointillism "in which small, distinct dots of pure color are applied in patterns to form an image", and the Ben-Day dots of mechanical printing.
Creator Id: 19
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Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Country of Birth: Canada
Province of Birth: Ontario
Year of Birth: 1956
City: Toronto
Country: Canada
Type of Creator: Artist
Gender: Male
Mediums: painting
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Work by Stephen Andrews

Facsimile part 4 (detail)

Work ID: 21354

Measurements: 6 x 18':, 183 x 548.6cm

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Facsimile part 4 (detail, Tim Jocelyn)

Work ID: 21355

Measurements: 6 x 18':, 183 x 548.6cm

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Facsimile part 4 (detail)

Work ID: 21353

Measurements: 6 x 18':, 183 x 548.6cm

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Facsimile part 4

Work ID: 21352

Measurements: 6 x 18':, 183 x 548.6cm

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Album (from the series)

Work ID: 21340

Measurements: 12 x 9

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Album (from the series)

Work ID: 21337

Measurements: 12 x 9

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Album (from the series)

Work ID: 21341

Measurements: 12 x 9

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Album (from the series)

Work ID: 21342

Measurements: 12 x 9

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Album (from the series)

Work ID: 21339

Measurements: 12 x 9

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Fingerprints (from the series)

Work ID: 21343

Measurements: 1 x 1

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Album (from the series)

Work ID: 21338

Measurements: 12 x 9

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Fingerprints (from the series)

Work ID: 21344

Measurements: 1 x 1

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Album (from the series)

Work ID: 21336

Measurements: 12 x 9

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Fingerprints (from the series)

Work ID: 21346

Measurements: 1 x 1

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Fingerprints (from the series)

Work ID: 21345

Measurements: 1 x 1

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Close Up (from the series hoi polloi)

Work ID: 21347

Measurements: 24 x 19

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untitled (from the series hoi polloi)

Work ID: 21350

Measurements: 24 x 19

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Medium Shot (from the series hoi polloi)

Work ID: 21349

Measurements: 24 x 19

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Long Shot (from the series hoi polloi)

Work ID: 21351

Measurements: 24 x 19

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Panic (from the series hoi polloi)

Work ID: 21348

Measurements: 24 x 19

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The 1st Part of the 2nd Half (detail)

Work ID: 21362

Measurements: 9' x 6

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The 1st Part of the 2nd Half (detail)

Work ID: 21358

Measurements: 9' x 6

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The 1st Part of the 2nd Half (detail)

Work ID: 21363

Measurements: 9' x 6

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Ise Day (detail)

Work ID: 21365

Measurements: 9' x 6

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The 1st Part of the 2nd Half (detail)

Work ID: 21360

Measurements: 9' x 6

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The 1st Part of the 2nd Half (detail)

Work ID: 21359

Measurements: 9' x 6

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The 1st Part of the 2nd Half (detail)

Work ID: 21357

Measurements: 9' x 6

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The 1st Part of the 2nd Half (detail)

Work ID: 21361

Measurements: 9' x 6

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Lazarus, Take 2 (detail)

Work ID: 21367

Measurements: 12 x 8':, 365.8 x 243.8cm

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The 1st Part of the 2nd Half

Work ID: 53111

Measurements: 9 x 35 feet:, 274 x 1066.8cm

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Ise Day

Work ID: 21364

Measurements: 9 x 10':, 274 x 304.8cm

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Lazarus, Take 2

Work ID: 21366

Measurements: 12 x 8':, 365.8 x 243.8cm

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Pink Barracade

Work ID: 64645

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Flare

Work ID: 64640

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Bright

Work ID: 64639

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July 18

Work ID: 64642

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POV

Work ID: 64646

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Orange Alert

Work ID: 64644

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Friendly Fire

Work ID: 64641

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On Leave 2

Work ID: 64643

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