Andy Newbrey


#1-Finding the Path-- I am a “Metal Sculptor”
    It has taken a long time to get to this point in my life. The move into the
    artistic realm has been slow and challenging. There has always been the
    battle between the analytical, practical, responsible side and the creative,
    artistic, impractical side. And now, the suppression of the artist has failed
    and the right side has taken over
#2-The New Vantage Point--
    I know as a race of human we have looked at thing and looked at things
    and looked at things-- I still have to make my audience look at things from a
    new vantage point. No matter what the subject matter.
#3-It must be Mine--
    My work has to be different from what other artists are doing—if not I’ve
    lost my “new vantage point” & basically, I’m just agreeing with the
    conversation.
#4-The Parts are the Whole--
    I don’t have to paint the entire picture to get my ideas across. My
    attention span is just not that long.
#5-My 4 Elements--
    §        Personality-- People, including myself, are drawn to
    personality. If a sculpture has none, I hate it, it says, “I’m dull because
    my maker didn’t have much personality either.” When looking back
    over the lifetime of works, the artist’s own personality comes
    through…My personality is….
    §        Contradiction-- There has to be contrast and contradiction
    somewhere. Otherwise it’s just a “thing”. & we all have way too many
    “things”. Hard against soft, heavy  but light, delicately rough, rigidly
    pliable, organic pero  fabricated, left brain, right brain, responsible
    and artistic…..  
    §        Openness-- I always picture the opposite of openness first:
    Orson Welles sitting in his chair, sipping wine & saying, “I will make no
    art before it’s time.” --My work is never aloof because I’m never aloof.
    My works must be completely approachable to everyone, nearly
    magnetic. They have to draw people in to touch them, be near them. --
    My insurance agent doesn’t want you to climb on them though……
    §        Energy & Motion-- Just like any living creature, any form of
    art has to have energy. It is dead without it. There is energy & motion
    all around us: in the trees, in the streets, the sky…if I should produce a
    sculpture with no motion, implied or otherwise, it may as well be a fence
    post. Energy + Motion = E-Motion…… You can use that in a
    conversation if you want to…

    Andy Newbrey