Jonathan Andrews
Brooklyn NY.

BFA from The Cooper Union
MA Hunter College
Adjunct Professor NYCCT New York City College of Technology CUNY

Two children

All paintings are 36” X 36”.
Oil on canvas
2018-2022

As opposed to traditional portraiture, I am fascinated by movement, commonality and everyday actions. Actions like shaving or putting on lipstick. For example a woman stretching her face to put on her lipstick. A man pulling a tee shirt on over his head, a woman playfully puckering her lips for the camera. This is life. And a rich vein to be mined by painters.

All my images are cropped so the faces appear larger and more dynamic.

Most pages have a slight distortion caused by foreshortening.

I use a baroque color palette (white, Naples yellow, yellow ocher, burnt siena, cobalt blue and ivory black). All paintings are oil on canvas and 36” X 36” square. I paint large realistic portraits of friends and models. They are 36” X 36” (3’X 3’).

They are all oil on canvas. 

I paint in a realistic style. Big shapes, following the planes.

2019 — Group Show Merit Scholarship 2018 ASL

2019 — Xavier Gonzalez & Ethel Edwards $15,000 Travel Grant 2019

2018 — Merit Scholarship 2018 ASL

NY State Council on the Arts – Painting

Exhibitour 2022 Juried by Alyssa Monks, Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art — WMOCA

1997 — New York City Technical College, CUNY, COMD Adjunct Professor

2001 — 2018 Pratt Institute, Adjunct Professor