Andrew Rubinstein

I completed my MFA in painting from the School of
the Art Institute in 1993. Since then life and art have coexisted.
Through the busy years I have been trying to empty out the fat, and
pursue the essence of ideas based on cosmological and quantum physics,
how they seem to intersect, or overlap with ontological questions,
ideas of god, and a sense of location in the universe.

Uneasy
with the bigness, and the inevitable edge, the vast majority of my
paintings run off the edge of the canvas, suggesting a continuum. In
many of the works, the initial perception would be of a pattern, but
upon closer inspection, the viewer will notice that the pattern is only
suggested, and then broken (which is in itself it’s own sort of
pattern). These approximate patterns intimate that infinity happens,
but only in a simulation of order, forever appearing predictable, but
never delivering the security inherent in predictability.