ANDRW FX
visual artist, author, maker, tinkerer, queer, lgbtqia+, nonbinary, music, noise, sound art
art
curriculum vitae
andrw’s practice of making can best be categorized as multifaceted. Their expressions have been within the public realm for nearly twenty years. They have played in numerous punk bands over the years, while exploring the various subsets of art that seem to trickle off of the genre leading to the exploration of DIY culture: audio recording, zines, stencil making, screen printing, tailoring, and the like.
While studying writing, literary theory, and anthropology at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, andrw catalogued a handful of zines, countless unpublished poems and stories, and a few dozen radical folk songs that were housed in self-released cassettes, CDRs, and digital formats.
In the two years following university, andrw mostly employed a Burroughs-esque cut up method as a means of making poetry while taking time away from making music and typical writing practices while coping with addiction and what would eventually be diagnosed as borderline personality disorder.
Since seeking treatment in 2016, andrw has been committed to both physical and emotional wellness while incorporating therapeutic elements of mindfulness and modes of navigating trauma into their interdisciplinary work.
andrw continues to write and make drawings, paintings, assemblage, philosophical street art, and audio recordings on a regular basis to continually navigate the absurdity of existence. Their curated body of solo exhibitions, publications, and audio releases as well as select collaborative works are catalogued below.
Education
2010 - 2014
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Exhibitions
2020
Art All Night. Special Online Covid-19 Series, PGH. Group.
2019
Zen and the Art of (Cyclical) Radical Acceptance. Bantha Tea Bar, PGH. Solo.
Publications
2022
the absurd one: meditations and illustrations. Paperback. Primary Process Archive.
This is a guided meditation. Audio story. Hello America Spring Collection.
every thing. Novella. Paperback. Primary Process Archive.
The Gospel According to Esther (A timeless dust particle). Audio story. Hello America Winter Collection.
2021
Rummage Sale. Audio story. Hello America Fall Collection.
A story of ruins. Audio story. Hello America Fall Collection
A story of birds (the body). Audio story. Hello America Summer Collection.
2016
Microcosms. Poetry Collection, Zine.
New Years, New Fears. Poetry Collection, Zine. (Limited 1/1)
2015
Cut the Shit Volume One. Poetry Collection, Zine.
2014
My First Shaving Kit. Short Story. Black and Grey Fashion Magazine. (Out of print)
Says the House to the Rats. Poetry Collection, Zine.
2013
Notes from the Ashtray: Medication Time. Fiction, Zine. (Out of print)
Five Ways of Improving Your Relationship with Ramen Noodles. Cookbook, Zine. (Out of print)
2011
Paper Hearts Burn with Glowing Embers. Poetry Collection, Zine. (Out of print)
Releases
2022
obitus basileus - erüdagnïr. Digital. Primary Process Archive
2: mysteriis doloris - hycnth. Digital. Primary Process Archive
semiotics vol 2: songs for ascension - andrw fx. Digital. Primary Process Archive
andrw was the bstrd: bbs first noise - andrw fx. Digital. Primary Process Archive
2021
Lucy is from Mars/Venus is from Phoenix Single - andrw fx. Digital. Primary Process Archive
End Times Grrl Single - andrw fx. Digital. Primary Process Archive
A Budding Reconciliation of Values - hyacinth. Remastered digital and limited cassette. Primary Process Archive.
Pain is the Ritual - COMA (Collaborative). Digital and limited cassette. Polish Hell DIY.
sound stories - andrw fx. Digital. Primary Process Archive.
ps. I don't huff glue anymore - andrw fx (Compilation of works). Digital. Primary Process Archive
2020
A Budding Reconciliation of Values - hyacinth. Digital. Coolidge Records.
Film Score 3 for The Uninvited Guest by Amy Edwards (Collaborative).
2019
Film Score 2 for Spring Drip by Amy Edwards (Collaborative).
Film Score 1 for Wolves in Winter by Amy Edwards (Collaborative).
2018
Venusians Demo - COMA (Collaborative). Digital and limited cassette. Polish Hell DIY
The Dialectics of Falling - andrw fx. Digital.
Semiotics Vol. 1: The Kitchen Window & Other Stories - andrw fx. Digital and cassette. Until the Quasar.
2017
Love in the Times Before the End Times Demo 1 - andrw fx. Digital.