Born in Connecticut in 1984, Andi Magenheimer earned her BFA from The School of Visual Arts, NYC and her MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art. She has exhibited widely in recent years, with solo shows in New York, Los Angeles and London.

Last month I launched a Viewing Room of her work and the response was incredible - from collectors and artists alike. Last week I spent another great afternoon at Andi’s studio. In the Viewing Room I’ve focused on her cowgirl paintings, but recent work dips into art history, folklore, politics and religious iconography.

Her work is always irreverent and witty and idiosyncratic. I really value her ability to paint whatever she is currently consumed by.

Traditional ways of seeing are based on geometric perspective - shared by human vision, painting and film. New technologies have collapsed these physical distances and so uprooted the familiar patterns of perception on which our culture and politics have been grounded. The distinctions between near and far, between an object and a horizon against which the object stands out have been erased by the real-time electronic transmission of information. If information from any point can be transmitted with the same speed, the concepts of near and far, horizon, distance and space itself no longer have any meaning.