Andrew
Wheatley
Illustration

Photo by Guia Del Prado

As a digital illustrator, Andrew Wheatley’s work reflects a continuation of the surrealist and dadaist artists that act as his inspiration—Magritte, Duchamp, Ernst—bringing them into the Millennial era. Wheatley merges pop culture (from Twin Peaks to The Simpsons to Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas); contemporary topics like climate change, imperialism, and capitalism; literature (Watership Down, Alice in Wonderland, 1984, Dante’s Inferno), and witty observations of the mundane (breakfast, Easter, squirrels). Using image components from historical sources and using plant and animal motifs, Wheatley’s work is uncanny, surreal, at turns frightening and delightful, historical yet out of time. Taken together, his work is a glance into a unique universe of Wheatley’s making. A member of the Long Island City Artists and Sunnyside Artists, Wheatley has exhibited his work at London College of Communication, Plaxall Gallery, Citi DeFord Gallery, The Factory LIC, Flushing Town Hall, Studio 41 Gallery, AHA Fine Art, Greenpoint Gallery, Local Project, and Leeds Beckett University.