Andrew
Moncrief
Andrew Moncrief
/ Current resident
Andrew Moncrief, a Canadian painter who lives and works in Berlin, Germany, can be understood as a movement away from control toward instability, where the painted body shifts from a site of likeness into something far less fixed. His earlier work, grounded in attentive realism and intimate figuration, centred on the charged presence of the male form. But over time, that commitment to precision gave way to a more open, searching approach - one less concerned with how bodies appear and more invested in how they feel, dissolve, and reconfigure. In this transition, painting becomes a space not of depiction, but of transformation.
Figures in my paintings often appear in flux, fragmented, collapsing, or reassembling, occupying a space that feels suspended between presence and absence. I'm interested in how we experience reality through the body, but also in how that reality can fracture: the "glitches" in perception, the dream-like slippages, the moments when time folds in on itself.
Andrew Moncrief
Andrew Moncrief
Andrew Moncrief
/ Current resident
Andrew Moncrief, a Canadian painter who lives and works in Berlin, Germany, can be understood as a movement away from control toward instability, where the painted body shifts from a site of likeness into something far less fixed. His earlier work, grounded in attentive realism and intimate figuration, centred on the charged presence of the male form. But over time, that commitment to precision gave way to a more open, searching approach - one less concerned with how bodies appear and more invested in how they feel, dissolve, and reconfigure. In this transition, painting becomes a space not of depiction, but of transformation.
Figures in my paintings often appear in flux, fragmented, collapsing, or reassembling, occupying a space that feels suspended between presence and absence. I'm interested in how we experience reality through the body, but also in how that reality can fracture: the "glitches" in perception, the dream-like slippages, the moments when time folds in on itself.
Andrew Moncrief
Andrew
Moncrief
Andrew Moncrief
/ Current resident
Andrew Moncrief, a Canadian painter who lives and works in Berlin, Germany, can be understood as a movement away from control toward instability, where the painted body shifts from a site of likeness into something far less fixed. His earlier work, grounded in attentive realism and intimate figuration, centred on the charged presence of the male form. But over time, that commitment to precision gave way to a more open, searching approach - one less concerned with how bodies appear and more invested in how they feel, dissolve, and reconfigure. In this transition, painting becomes a space not of depiction, but of transformation.
Figures in my paintings often appear in flux, fragmented, collapsing, or reassembling, occupying a space that feels suspended between presence and absence. I'm interested in how we experience reality through the body, but also in how that reality can fracture: the "glitches" in perception, the dream-like slippages, the moments when time folds in on itself.