Andrew Chalfen is a visual artist and musician living and working in Philadelphia. He has been featured at two solo shows in 2023 thus far. His work has appeared at many exhibits nationally and in and around Philadelphia, PA, such as at the Abington Art Center, Wayne Arts Center, The Hoyt Center, the Delaware Contemporary, the Arts Council of Princeton, Viridium Gallery, and many Philadelphia locations via his art collective Inliquid. His work has appeared on book jackets and rock album covers. He is the recipient of several awards and is the winner of the Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series Mid-Atlantic Regional for 2018 and his piece "Vibration Lands" was displayed at SCOPE Miami during the Art Basel/Art Miami fair.
I am fascinated by patterns; how they ripple, radiate, refract, bloom, interact, cluster, construct, and deconstruct. My works allude to aerial views, cartography, architectural renderings, musical notation, urban densities, and other natural and man-made patterns, while not literally being any of those things. Rather, my pieces reflect a kind of topography of thought and mood as I work through various aesthetic themes such as connections, intersections, and layers. I incorporate the repetition of a small selection of formal elements, subtle variation, the timbre of color palate, rhythm, and a combination of generative randomization strategies and intentionality to express themes of nostalgia, anxiety, play, musicality, fragility, impenetrable data, accelerating planetary chaos, and physical and psychic fragmentation.
