Andrew Huston

Andrew Huston, born in the United Kingdom, is an American/Australian/British artist. After 20 years in New York, he moved to Venice, Italy, in June 2017, where he now lives and works. Huston completed his bachelor’s degree at Parsons School of Design in Paris, France, and earned his master’s in painting at the Sydney College of the Arts in Sydney, Australia. He has exhibited and collaborated with many artist-run spaces in Europe and the United States, as well as with commercial galleries.

In 2006, he founded “Non-Objectif Sud”, an artist-run residency and exhibition project in the south of France. Huston is primarily an abstract artist whose main focus is painting and drawing.

The Venetian lagoon permeates Huston’s recent work, where he builds horizontal bands of colour in his series “Tides & Arches”. These works respond to the emotional pressures of the city’s tidal shifts and explore, in two-dimensional form, the celestial influence of the moon and sun upon the lagoon’s waters. Historical and architectural vernacular also informs Huston’s paintings and works on paper, with shaped canvases inspired by the domestic baroque structures found in Venetian functional spaces and homes.