Andrew Prayzner is a visual artist, educator, and a founding member of Tiger Strikes Asteroid NY, an artist-run gallery in Brooklyn. He has twice been a resident at Yaddo and holds an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania, and a BFA from the University of Hartford. He has participated in numerous national and international group exhibitions including the Aldrich Museum, Housatonic Museum of Art, The Wassaic Project, Scotty Projects, and SFA Projects. In the summer of 2015, Andrew was a resident at Studio Kura in Fukuoka, Japan. He concluded the residency with a solo exhibition of nocturnal drawings titled One Hundred Views of Nothing. In 2016, a solo exhibition titled Horizontals was presented in the project space at Morgan Lehman in NY. In January 2019, Andrew exhibited twelve new paintings at the Hearst Corporation’s midtown gallery for an exhibition titled Art Now 2019: Metamorphosis, Changing Climate. He lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, and is an adjunct professor at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and BMCC.
“The primary thematic interest in my work is concerned with the dualistic systems of text and pictorial language as information acquisition systems that both interfere with and intensify each other. The first system, pictorial, is employed early with young children. A second kind of information acquisition, language, comes later, and displaces pictorial reading’s primacy. My painting acknowledges the viewer’s shift between these two types of information acquisition while looking and employs the abstraction of written language to underscore the tension of these systems to compete within the viewer’s interpretive capabilities.”