Andy Louie
"Fox in the Woods" ID: Color pencil drawing of a brown fox standing between two trees. Behind it, a blue sky fills the space.
2021 ID: A digital drawing depicting two figures grey with segmented bodies and open red mouths. They stand side by side on a flat green surface, behind them stand three fantastical trees, each branch ending in a colorful node. The sky is bright blue.
2021 ID: A digital drawing of two floating gloved hands and two feed in black shoes against a purple background. The limbs are oriented as if they are connected, perhaps belonging to a person whose torso and head are invisible.
2022 ID: A digital drawing of six hot pink birds standing in profile, receding into the background in an environment with bright green ground and a slate grey sky.
2022 ID: A digital drawing of six figures arranged in two rows, depicted in black outlines on a white background. The lower row have legible human bodies and slightly abstracted heads with wiggly outlines. The top row are more abstract, resembling clouds with faces and legs.
2022 ID: A digital drawing of a landscape with bright green grass, blue sky, and abundant spindly trees in alternatingly vertical and horizontal rows. Two buildings are visible, one white with a red chimney and black door, one transparent. Both have glowing yellow windows. A oblong brown form that resembles a boat spans the horizon, perhaps a flattened perspective of a canoe on an inlet.
2022 ID: A digital drawing of two animals, an orange cat with a yellow downturned mouth and a white dog with a black spot on its ear stand side by side against a pale pink background.
"Camping with my friend" A color pencil drawing of two people standing in a green field. To the right is a brown cabin with illuminated windows and a red brick chimney. In the blue sky is a yellow sun and clouds.
bio
Andy Louie is a multimedia artist from Portland, Oregon. His creative process electronically patches together glitchy synth grooves, iPad sketches of cats with long abdomens, garage band Chinese drums, and painterly maps of neighborhoods which are simultaneously synthesizers. In Andy’s paintings, figures, cars, swingsets, and cats are embedded in buttons and knobs, wired together under a horizontal strip of sky, where friendly suns and evenly spaced clouds watch over the musical melody below.
Andy has been a central collaborator in Videotones since its inception in 2018. He is one-half of the Jandyband, a musical duo that uses chance-based systems, open ended prompts, and improvisation to make jumpy, chaotic grooves and ultrasyncopated bursts of rhythm. The Jandyband’s first album, Wavy Process, was released by Cityland Tapes in 2024.
c.v.
2026
Buttons and Knobs, Left and Right, Elbow Room, Portland, OR (solo show)
2025
Dialtones, Hoffman Gallery, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, OR
Crescendo, Elbow Room, Portland, OR
2022
Too Much Sun, Alberta Abbey, Portland, OR
2021
Team Back Together, The Hoffman Gallery at Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR
2019
TIME>SPACE>PLACE, 1122 Outside, Portland OR