Born in the Dominican Republic (b. 1977), Andres moved to The Bronx, New York at 18 years of age where he currently resides. With close to zero formal art schooling or training, Andres would spend much of his spare time drawing, and exploring ways to develop his understanding of art-making and self-expression, a practice that has been part of his life since early childhood.

As it turns out, Andres would find out that self-expression is easy to dwell on in your thoughts, yet harder to execute in visual form, so he skirted around the topic altogether for many years. He focused on painting and drawing what he saw, continuously learning through practice and exploration, but self-expression is impossible to escape.

The vision for Andres’ current line of work, which he describes as Abstract Surrealism, came to fruition at a relatively later stage in his life, and the timing was perfect. 

The series’ title, Random Access Memory, references a computer’s element of the same name (RAM). In this day and age, societal evolution seems to seek the optimization of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to enhance the quality of the human experience by automation thought. Andres' work relies solely on the use of the human mind, as a channel, to truly create, and truly enhance the human experience, not through automation, but through liberation from thought.

Andres’ paintings (oil on canvas) reflect surreal, dreamlike spaces that invite both imagination and remembrance of unexplored places. He uses, organic form and color movement, contrasted against straight-edge patterns and shapes that seem to invite the visual cortex to travel effortlessly from one plane to the next. By using a mix of divine creativity, intuition, and memory of past and future works, Andres aims to give these seemingly abstract compositions a sense of tangible reality within our physical world, synched with a deeper sense of true connection to the self.

Andres describes his process as “practice detached from expectations”, even though he enjoys filling sketchbook pages with similar forms and color harmonies, these pages rarely have a direct transition into his canvas. What happens on canvas, starts on the canvas. Every painting starts with loose compositional marks and flowing lines. More often than not, these marks and lines tend to carve their path as colors and shapes start to meet each other once again for the first time. He feels that he is not creating, but translating and that his primary responsibility as an artist is to stay present and do the work.