Mark Andreas is a sculptor, educator and co-director of “Videokaffe” an international new media art collective. Andreas’s art work explores the changing role of time ,hand craft, technology, and its impact on the present day human experience . Andreas’s artistic approach is informed by his background as a boat builder, sailor crafts person and love of nature.
Andreas has lectured, taught and given workshops at, Yale University, Aalto University, The University of Tennessee and is currently teaching sculpture and woodworking at the Silvermine Art Center in Connecticut.
For nearly 20 years , Andreas has exhibited his art work both nationally and internationally with exhibitions at the Cress Gallery at the University of Tennessee , Galleria Anhava Helsinki, Luda Gallery St.Petersburg RU, SIGN Gallery NL, CICA Museum, Seoul Korea, the and up coming shows in 2021 at the Torrance Art Museum in LA, and C.A.P. Kobe Japan.
Andreas’s sculpture stands as public art in Peekskill New York and together with Videokaffe in Stockholm Sweden .
‘My work is exploring the forces of craft, time, biology, technology and human connections. Much of these forces including those that we recognized but never quite fully witness. I build hand crafted sculptures implementing the skills I have honed through years of working as a boat builder, carpenter and designer. My performance based art is focused on connecting artists and artist communities globally through digital platforms and live events.
I am always trying to give nature a voice to inform my abstract art. My research and relationship with nature is developed by daly walks in the woods, sailing and by the study and creation of figurative sculpture.’
As part of his residency at Interface, mark left us equipped with a fully kitted out wood-working workshop.
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