What Isn't Nature?
new paintings
February 19 - March 20, 2021
What Isn't Nature? 1
, 2021
installation view
What Isn't Nature? 2
, 2021
installation view
Untitled 1
, 2020
oil on canvas
18 x 20 inches
Untitled 2
, 2020
oil on canvas
16 x 22 inches
What Isn't Nature? 3
, 2021
installation view
What Isn't Nature? 4
, 2021
installation view
What Isn't Nature? 5
, 2021
installation view
Untitled 3
, 2020
oil on canvas
16 x 18 inches
Untitled 4
, 2020
oil on canvas
18 x 20 inches
What Isn't Nature? 6
, 2021
installation view
What Isn't Nature? 7
, 2021
installation view
What Isn't Nature? 8
, 2021
installation view
Untitled 6
, 2020
oil on canvas
16 x 20 inches
What Isn't Nature? 9
, 2021
installation view
Untitled 7
, 2020
oil on canvas
20 x 22 inches
What Isn't Nature? 10
, 2021
installation view
Untitled 8
, 2020
oil on canvas
16 x 18 inches
This most recent series of paintings was inspired by the eternal wasteland.
the internal landscape.
our primitive past.
our primitive future.
Ironic Nature.
Our ironic nature.
The bluntness of painting.
How clumsy it feels to drag a brush across canvas.
-- André Ethier, February 2021
André Ethier (born 1977, Toronto) is a Toronto-based painter and musician. He attended Etobicoke School of the Arts for Visual Arts and received a BFA from Concordia University in 2001. Ethier has exhibited extensively in Canada, the U.S., Europe and Australia.