Andy Denzler

In a world seemingly enamoured with high definition and extreme resolution, the distorted photo-like quality of Denzler's paintings provides an alternative to our often over-glossed 'reality‘.

Intent on pushing the boundaries between abstraction and photorealism, the artist captures the authenticity of the everyday, creating an honest and often intimate moment on canvas.

Magazine, November 2019[4]) But unlike many contemporary painters, Denzler doesn't reproduce the photographic image onto a canvas to create a template for his work.

The vestigial image, boldly striped with horizontal scrapes made by a spatula dragged across the canvas, has the effect of a video that has been permanently put on pause, giving the viewer a sense that something came before, and something will come after.

(Creative Boom, 14 June 2017 by Katy Kowan[5]) Denzler's new paintings unite the precision and nostalgia of realism with the bold dynamism and pulsating energy of gestural abstraction.

(Wall Street International Magazine/Arts, 24 January 2014[6]) Denzler analyses the medium, the ideational and representational possibilities inherent in present-day painting with dedication and enthusiasm.