Ad Paintings (online solo exhibition)

Drew Weech is a New York-based Bahamian painter. He graduated from NSCAD University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada with a BDes in Interdisciplinary Design in 2011. Weech explores various historical and contemporary archetypes such as the nude and the vanitas to vivify his own conflicted feelings about the notion of “home.”

Weech’s Ad Paintings are a series reflecting on the materials and motifs variously associated with foggy notions of belonging. Born in Nassau and now based in Harlem, NYC, Weech questions place and cultural history as they are expressed through advertising and popular visual media. The paintings' subject matter -- wheat-pasted posters, palm trees, and geographic coordinates -- draws on Weech's Afro-Carribean roots, querying a complicated relationship to ideas of "home."

https://www.terngallery.com/viewing-room-drew-weech