The work I completed at Compeung is part of what I hope to evolve into a larger series of works. The series is entitled “The Lake Suite” named after both the Edgar Allen Poe poem ‘The Lake’, and the inspiration culled from the lake near Compeung Village. Based in the exploration of a number of personal events that occurred during my month in Thailand (including deaths, marriages, and the deterioration of a number of personal relationships) I had the sneaking suspicion that the work was significant for my development as an artist.
Above all, I was able to reconnect to an emotive aspect that I felt had been absent from my work for some time. Perhaps it was the isolation, perhaps it was emphasized by the removal from my ‘normal life’, but Compeung allowed me to reflect, reconnect, and express a number of resoundingly personal experiences through my work. One must forgive the apparent cliches in my feelings toward Compeung, but I became quite emotionally attached to the space, my colleagues in attendance, and the process of convalescence that my practice underwent during my time at Compeung.
Supported by
ComPeung Grant 2010
The Canadian artist Andrew Salgado currenty lives and works in Berlin, Germany. His emotive, large-scale and gestural oil paintings and visceral, sexually charged videos are an intense exploration of the body, identity, and sexuality through an approach that predominates ‘paint’ as material and metaphor
He completed a Master Degree from the renowned Chelsea College of Art in London, England. And has worked closely with the art gallery and consulting agency Beers Lambert Contemporary Art, in curatorial and exhibiting capacities.
For the ComPeung residency Andrew focuses on pencil drawings. He plans to merge the ideas in his paintings with an approach similar to his earlier pencil work on a more abstract and technical level.