Andrew Laumann
Life is Peachy
Laumann Residence, Essex, MD
Saturday, August 27th, 2022
Photography by Anonymous

Maurice presents, Life is Peachy, a one-night-only exhibition featuring new paintings by Andrew Laumann. Riding on the steam of a prolific period of production for the artist, Laumann purges an explosive set of new paintings that celebrate nostalgia, underground culture, signs, logos, icons (reverent and irreverent), with the artist’s personal history and relationship to Internet culture. On the precipice of a radically new mode of production for the artist, Laumann reconciles his past relationship with abstraction, and forges a path forward, integrating his newly discovered figurative language into an amalgamation of legibility and obfuscation. The work was subsequently installed at the Laumann Residence in Essex, MD, the artist’s childhood home-cum-temporary exhibition space. Although the work was mounted for a brief period of time, the outdoor environment becomes critical to understanding the work’s thesis: paintings not made with the intention of being seen in a white cube, but rather artworks that can live in any makeshift environment-paintings that are divorced from the pretension of a gallery exhibition.

Maurice continues to offer experimental, cross-disciplinary, site-specific, residential art projects.

View the interview with Andrew Laumann HERE