Scottish artist Andrew McIntosh introduces a bold twist to his artistic repertoire, moving away from his usual dreamy palettes of soft blues, grays, and oranges. Instead, he embraces a sanguine red in his latest body of work. These crimson paintings continue McIntosh’s exploration of otherworldly landscapes, where familiar forms like mountains and valleys are cast in a strange, uncanny light. Glowing orbs float among the rugged terrain, enveloping the scenes in mystery.
McIntosh describes his work as “sitting somewhere between memory and invention—familiar landscapes interrupted by something I don’t fully understand.”
Exhibition details
The paintings are part of a solo exhibition at School Gallery titled I Hope This Transmission Finds You Soon. The artwork evokes themes of alien communication and the unknowns that permeate even familiar surroundings. It draws inspiration from Cormac McCarthy’s novel Blood Meridian from 1985, which is noted for its violence and relentless pursuit of dominance. This resonates with themes in other works exploring the blend of art and literature, like punch needle as a contemporary art form.
The gallery includes a quote from Blood Meridian to enhance the exhibition’s theme:
The truth about the world … is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance populated with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tent show whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.
The exhibition I Hope This Transmission Finds You Soon is open through May 30 in Folkestone, U.K. You can explore more of McIntosh’s work on Instagram.
Featured artworks
Detail of “Whitney” showcases the depth and complexity of McIntosh’s recent work, reminiscent of how photography captures movement in architectural designs.
Source: thisiscolossal.com