Naturally : A solo exhibition by Andrew Faris

Andrew Faris is an artist based in the Teton Mountains of Wyoming. Influenced by his design background he aims for simplicity and impact through the bold use of color and composition, while embracing the spontaneity of water and paint on canvas. He hopes to elicit an emotional response while teasing the formal with flourishes and flairs of gesture and calling on the great power of abstraction to recollect and recall, questioning what it means to combine, be it colors, forms or concepts.

In Naturally, Andrew Faris invites viewers into a world where pigment flows like water and form emerges not through force but through intuition. Each painting becomes a moment suspended, an organic convergence of bold geometry, diffusion, and raw materiality. Faris balances the control of design with the unpredictability of his medium, creating compositions that feel both deliberate and inevitable. The interplay of sharp-edged color fields and soft, blooming gestures creates an unfolding presence, as if nature itself had a hand in the making. By leaving parts of the canvas unprimed and exposed, he draws attention to texture and surface, grounding the ethereal with the tactile.

Rooted in the landscape of Wyoming and informed by his background in visual communication, Faris approaches abstraction as an almost visual empathy, with an effort to capture the poetry of becoming. His works harbor a quiet tension, where vivid hues collide and dissolve. In this latest exhibition, Faris is not merely presenting finished works, but offering visual evidence of a process and the moment when material meets motion, when color becomes feeling, and when something seemingly simple reveals complexity. Naturally is a meditation on presence, a record of the artist’s hand, and a celebration of the instinctive elegance found in the unforced.