Andrew Ringler

Growing up in a small rural corner of Ohio, Andrew Ringler was presented with a landscape that would inspire his curiosity and propensity for finding beauty in the most unlikely places. It was a landscape that offered a deluge of sensory experiences rooted in broken down items and domiciles. Disused factories and abandoned buildings became frequent haunts that taught him the value of things long devalued by others. Andrew claims they are "old, unused, and yet they used to have a purpose. There's something provocative there." As he notes of his curiosity, "I want to peel back the old layers of wallpaper to find what's hiding underneath."

The art is, to him, an instrument of vague personal expression focusing on emotion. This emotion is often expressed by work that lies outside of conventional notions of beauty. An abandoned house may look melancholy and nearing collapse, but one is enticed to enter nonetheless. These things materialize in his work through abandoned, industrial, and archaic visualizations, as well as a frequent tendency to contrast several elements that represent distinct emotions.