-Andy Jenkins-
To hear him say it, the crux of Andy Jenkins’s current work lies in his guilt. The guilt of one human’s consumption in a culture of excess. How does he channel this guilt? The man is a creative pack rat of amazing proportions. He saves every scrap of paper he comes in contact with. In 1995 he began using these notes, receipts, business cards, paper bags, envelopes in a series of works loosely entitled the “Post Consumption Guilt” series. You could call it a sort of recycling as the found objects background fodder for his neurotic, intricate, line art. Some pieces stand individually and others are actually sewn together into large paper “quilts”. He continues to nurture and refine this idea of regeneration today in his current series of paintings entitled “Ugly Beauty” after the composition by Thelonious Monk. Jenkins is also considering venturing into 3 dimension, as his home studio is being over-run with found objects as well.
“ A few years ago I did a couple of... I guess you could call them sculptures, but they were really, toys. Dangerous toys made out of metal scraps, nails and various junk. I think I need to go there again before my wife kicks me out of the house with all my collections.”
Most nights, you can find him hunched over his work on the floor of his kitchen studio or behind the keyboard of his laptop. If you’re curious what he does during the day, he’s been the creative director for the Girl Skateboard Company since it’s inception in 1993. To find out more or see some of his current work and projects, visit his personal web site at bendpress.com, or the Art Dump Collective site, theartdump.com, or the Girl umbrella site, crailtap.com. Busy man, the Jenkins character.
— Carl Sanger