Gretchen Andrew

Style: Digital Art; Cyber Art;

Place: Los Angeles

Born: 1988

Biography:

Gretchen Andrew is an American artist. Her painting practice is mostly described as an exploration of search engine art and virtual reality. Her work was exhibited in museums and galleries in Europe and the United States, including De Re Gallery, Arebyte gallery. Gretchen Andrew grew up in New Hampshire. She studied Information Systems at Boston College where she attended on a track scholarship. Describing her degree she has said, 'Information systems is all about how companies use technology for competitive advantage...translated into art, I'm asking how I can use information to create meaning.' Andrew worked in Silicon Valley at both Intuit and Google. After working there from 2010 to 2012, she left Google to become a painter. She has claimed to have developed her artistic technique by watching how to videos on YouTube. The idea that one can learn about all topics on the Internet was the motto of her artistic series 'How to How to How to'. From 2012 to 2017 she apprenticed with London-based figurative painter Billy Childish who is still her mentor.