TERI GANDY-RICHARDSON
my why + mindset

I’ve been based in Brooklyn for a long time, but was born in southern Minnesota, where I spent most of my childhood. I was eleven when my dad’s job relocated our family to New York State.

The art that I make references body and breath by combining the gestures of nature with industrial, urban rhythms. My interest is to extract and celebrate the truths within the frayed and weathered layers of who we are.

Identifying as an abstract painter, I’m emotionally tied to my exclusive use of Levi’s for historical relevance. I believe that our individual intimacy and familiarity with denim marks a bond, and when exploited in a shared experience, confirms our connection, and ground.

My process is to dissect, twist, tie, mold and adhere my worn denim scraps while using acrylic paint to push the depths of cultural, and historical weight embedded in it’s history. Because denim has always dressed our culture, our movements, our rebellions and attitudes, for me, it’s an iconic totem and reminder of who were— and who we could be.

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