Recently I found a gallery on the net with unusual paintings from screws. And I thought to myself here: “Really long-lasting!… Like the pyramids” Then I thought of many other things. And in the end I decided to post it on my blog.

The work of Andrew Myers, I must say, I do not inspire, but still, I put it out there, because someone can be inspired to create something no less original and timeless. And if you look at the gallery of pictures made of nails, then… I can’t even think about the art of the future…

But never mind. Live pictures of screws must look unusual, three-dimensional, spectacular. It’s a pity that they didn’t do without paint. The effect is not the same as with pure sculptural volume. Still, it turns out that these are more pictures than sculptures … More about the author …

Andrew Myers Biography
Andrew Myers is a famous painter and sculptor from Laguna Beach, California. Andrew Myers was artistically influenced by European life and culture from an early age. He was born in Braunshweig, Germany. Grew up in Ciudad Real in Spain. He arrived there from Germany when he was six months old. Because of this, most of his memories of Europe are in Spain. His love of art was born there. School excursions to the great museums made a significant contribution here. The large bronze sculptures in the squares made a strong impression on his childhood perception. He had no idea how such a thing could be made, and was fascinated again each time. Had it not been for his Spanish experiences, it is unlikely that he would have embraced sculpture.

At 16, after graduating high school, Andrew Myers and his family moved to Seattle, USA. He had no definite direction in life at the time. He didn’t have a job and needed to figure out what to do. He ended up going to an art school in Laguna Beach and started sculpting. It was then called the Art Institute of Southern California. Andrew got in very quickly and confidently, without really expecting it. He was asked to do a bunch of drawings that he had never done before. He got the job done. It ended up being a source of pride for him, as well as the start of college and a scholarship.

Paintings from screws
The idea to apply screws to artwork came from a friend’s studio, where Andrew Myers spends a lot of time with a small group of artist friends. They are constantly ideologically spurring each other on and trying to come up with new and more interesting things. One day, while playing with some screws in a friend’s studio (it was while working on one of the bronze relief projects for the church) he thought that if he could do in clay and bronze, he could do a similar inch-long relief with something else. About a year later, the idea of drawing a grid and creating the whole bas-relief with screws came up clearly. And it was a very interesting process.

The first job took about 6 months, and Andrew had no idea what to expect in the end. The original intention was just to create a bas-relief, just with screws. When he finished that part, he found the result interesting, but not in keeping with what he was looking for. It reminded him of a toy that left a mark when he pressed it with his hand…

Andrew Myers thought he could paint the heads of the screws, and then you could create a much more three-dimensional effect, and still see the screws, which would convey the depth of the work as the viewer moved around the work. When the idea was realized, Andrew was very surprised with the result and pleased with himself.

Andrew uses his circle of family and friends as models for his metal works. This is mainly due to the convenience of working with such models. It’s easier and more enjoyable, more emotion and depth.

One of the pieces called “Rethinking…” was made with a friend who was going through a divorce. He was devastated and often shed tears behind Andrew’s back. He ended up asking the friend to shed tears not behind his back, but in front of him to capture those emotions in the work…

In the same work, the backdrop is the pages of the phone book. This is the culmination of Andrew’s desire to place all of his friends in the work. One of his friends said at the time that it was impossible. The next day a large telephone collage appeared.

Other works also used a similar background. And it was original and fun in its own way to find the client’s name and phone number in the work several years after it was sold.

The next step in Andrew Myers’ screw art is going to be in the direction of full-size human figures. It will be a much more meticulous job. It will no longer require 10,000 screws, but more than 50,000 for each work. Like all previous works it will not bring any money to the fullest extent, but will be a typical selfless fruit of love of creation.