Perennial Specimen • Glazed collage by Andrew Riggins • July 10th - August 19th, 2015
What is the form of your soul?
By removing the top layer of skin and opening the body to viewing, Andrew Riggins brings to the forefront the organic systems that make human life possible. However, the figures he shows us are not quite human. Lacking any chronological signifiers, these creatures are frozen in a nethertime; not now, then, or when. Human anatomy provides us a reference point, as the building blocks of these patchworks; these Othermen. Are we their children or their ancestors?
searching for their home searching for their purpose salvation lurks in the distance.
Once our ashes are swept up by the sands of time, will the ever-present Darwinian forces reuse our DNA? Our ego hopes that our genes be scattered to the wind, into the post-apocalyptic rehashing of the Primordial Soup, ensuring that our legacy lives ‘forever’.
Andrew Riggins was born in 1986 in Texas. He grew up in Dallas and currently lives and works in Austin. Heavy influences include Gee Vaucher, Winston Smith and Negativland. Scissors, glue, paper, and resin are his main tools but he also works with Polaroid photography, screen printing and digital art.
an interview with the artist about this show can be seen here
AndrewRiggins.com
By removing the top layer of skin and opening the body to viewing, Andrew Riggins brings to the forefront the organic systems that make human life possible. However, the figures he shows us are not quite human. Lacking any chronological signifiers, these creatures are frozen in a nethertime; not now, then, or when. Human anatomy provides us a reference point, as the building blocks of these patchworks; these Othermen. Are we their children or their ancestors?
searching for their home searching for their purpose salvation lurks in the distance.
Once our ashes are swept up by the sands of time, will the ever-present Darwinian forces reuse our DNA? Our ego hopes that our genes be scattered to the wind, into the post-apocalyptic rehashing of the Primordial Soup, ensuring that our legacy lives ‘forever’.
Andrew Riggins was born in 1986 in Texas. He grew up in Dallas and currently lives and works in Austin. Heavy influences include Gee Vaucher, Winston Smith and Negativland. Scissors, glue, paper, and resin are his main tools but he also works with Polaroid photography, screen printing and digital art.
an interview with the artist about this show can be seen here
AndrewRiggins.com
