Kerry Schuss Gallery

Press Release

Kerry Schuss Gallery presents recent paintings by Scottish artist Andrew Kerr.

These small acrylic paintings on paper betray mystery and tenderness. Their reduced, low-tone compositions, achieved in pale, ashen colours, modelled with elementary shadowing, create stillness and ambiguity. Their vague, speculative features, reckoning with half-emergent forms, bring a curious beauty.

Each painting is mounted on board and edged in wood. This wood had a previous life as an Edinburgh pew that bore witness to Agatha Christie’s wedding.

Andrew Kerr was born in 1977 in Scotland.

He studied at the art school in Glasgow that tragically burnt down several years ago. Remaining in the city, he has a studio in the Whiteinch area.  He goes there most days, where his routine is extremely slow. He still takes a deep delight in observational drawing and is loyal to paper. Reliable influences are Georges Braque, Prunella Clough, and Richard Alston.

This exhibit is organized with The Modern Institute in Glasgow which has mounted numerous shows Kerr's work. Public solo exhibitions have taken place at Inverleith House, Edinburgh, and Kunstverein Bremerhaven. A monograph documenting a selection of paintings from the last ten years was published in 2020 by The Modern Institute / Toby Webster Ltd.