Andrew Bush graduated from Yale University with an MFA in Photography in 1982 and has been pursuing the Vector Portraits series since he moved to Los Angeles in 1989. Captured on the expansive roadways of Los Angeles and across the West, the work speaks to a democratic American ideal—not just that of the open road, but the personal vehicular space sacred to Angelenos who spend so much time ensconced en route. Bush's photographs allow access into those private moments, defying the fleeting nature of car culture. The viewer holds the privileged role of voyeur, observing and surveilling the oftentimes unaware subjects.
The Vector Portraits series has been exhibited extensively in solo and group shows, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), Davis Museum and Cultural Center at Wellesley College (Wellesley, Massachusetts) and Staatliche Kunsthalle (Baden-Baden, Germany). Bush’s work is held in prominent public collections such as the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago), The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), The Museum of Modern Art (New York), The Museum of Fine Arts (Houston), The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The George Eastman House (Rochester, New York) and The Victoria & Albert Museum (London). In 2008, Yale University Press published his monograph Drive, which includes an interview by Jeff L. Rosenheim, the Curator of Photography at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Andrew Bush currently lives and works in Los Angeles.
| BORN | |
| EDUCATION | |
| 1982 | M.F.A., Photography, Yale University, New Haven, CT |
| 1979 | B.A., Pomona College, Claremont, CA |
| SOLO EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2011 | Drive, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA |
| 2010 | Vector Portraits, 3Punts Gallery, Barcelona |
| Vector Portraits, 3 Punts Galeria, Barcelona, Spain | |
| 2009 | Vector Portraits, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY |
| Vector Portraits, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY | |
| Vector Portraits, M+B Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | |
| 2002 | Vector Portraits, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2001 | Prop Portraits, Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, MO |
| 2000 | Prop Portraits, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1998 | Envelopes, Robert Klein, Boston, MA |
| Fifteen Year Survey, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY | |
| Envelopes, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA | |
| 1996 | Portraits-Business Cards, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1995 | Envelopes, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
| 1995-94 | Envelopes, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1993 | Bonnettstown, Champion International Corporation, Stamford, CT Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
| 1992 | Vector Portraits, Lieberman & Saul Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1992-91 | Vector Portraits, Department of Motor Vehicle Buildings, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1991 | Bonnettstown, Glen/Dash Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1990 | Bonnettstown, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR |
| Bonnettstown, Chenango Council of the Arts, Norwich, CT | |
| Bonnettstown, Roger Ramsey Gallery, Chicago, IL | |
| 1986 | Bonnettstown, Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis, MO |
| Bonnettstown, Lieberman & Saul Gallery, New York, NY | |
| GROUP EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2011 | Car Fetish. I drive, therefore I am., Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland |
| 2010 | A New American Photographic Dream, Lyon Septembre de la Photographie, Lyon, France |
| 2009 | Surface Tension, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY |
| 2007 | Worlds Away, New Suburban Landscapes, Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN |
| Stalking Suburbia, The Westport Arts Center, Westport, CT | |
| 2004 | Poul Kjaerholm and Selected Art Works, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2002 | Surrounding Interiors: Views Inside the Car, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley, MA |
| Ich Bin Mein Auto: Die Maschinalen Ebenbilder der Menschen, Statlich Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden | |
| Text/Textile: Words and Weaving in Contemporary Art, Deutsche Bank Lobby Gallery, West 52nd St., New York, NY | |
| 2001 | Sand/Pavement: Beach Photographs/ Car Culture, Nassau Community College, Firehouse Art Gallery, Garden City, NJ |
| Reconsidering the Renaissance, Bridgewater/Lustberg & Blumenfeld, New York, NY | |
| Avant-Premiere 6, Galerie Claude Samuel, Paris, FR | |
| Show Me the Money - The Dollar as Art, Trust for Museum Exhibitions | |
| 2000 | Photography Now: An International Survey of Contemporary Photography, The Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA |
| Rearview Mirror: Automobile Images and American Identities, California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside | |
| SoCal Car Culture, The Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA | |
| Breathless! - Photography and Time, The Canon Photography Gallery at the V&A, London, UK | |
| MoneyMaking: The Fine Art of Currency at the Millenium, Federal Reserve, Washington, D.C. | |
| 1999 | Summer Reading, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY |
| Duration and Whenever, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA | |
| A Survey of Interior Imaging from X-ray to MRI, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY | |
| 1998 | Interiors, Champion International Corporation, Stamford, CT |
| A Thin Line, Bard College, Annadale-on-Hudson, NY | |
| 1997 | Figure and Landscape, Montgomery Glasoe Fine Art, Minneapolis, MN |
| 1996 | Recent Acquisitions, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA |
| Photographics, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH | |
| Portraits, 1991-1996, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY | |
| Blind Spot Photography: The First Four Years, Paolo Baldacci Gallery, NY | |
| 1995 | Verisimilitude and the Utility of Doubt, White Columns, NY |
| P.L.A.N.: Photography Los Angeles Now, LA County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA | |
| The Joy of Painting, HERE, NY | |
| Recent Acquisitions, LA County Museum, Los Angeles, CA | |
| Megan Fox Gallery, Santa Fe, NM | |
| 1994 | Champion International Corporation, Stamford, CT |
| Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA | |
| Serial/Images, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, 1994 | |
| Lousy Fear, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL | |
| 1993 | Commodity Image, International Center of Photography Midtown, New York, NY |
| Vector Portraits, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY | |
| 1991 | Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY |
| MetLife Gallery, New York, NY | |
| Off the Beaten Track, Security Pacific Bank, Cost Mesa, CA | |
| Didactics--Aspects of Photography, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK | |
| 1990 | Gardner Arts Center, University of Sussex, UK |
| 1989 | Recent Acquisitions, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
| 1988 | Art at Pomona College, Claremont, CA |
| 1986 | Rice University Media Center, Austin, TX |
| The Parrish Museum, Southampton, NY | |
| 1985 | Lieberman & Saul Gallery, New York, NY |
| Daniel Wolf Gallery, New York, NY | |
| Photographs of Flowers from the Collection of Sam Wagstaff, Detroit Museum of Art, Detroit, MI | |
| The Photographers' Gallery, London, UK | |
| 1984 | Color Photographs - Recent Acquisitions, Museum Of Modern Art, New York, NY |
| Olympus Camera Gallery, London, UK | |
| COLLECTIONS | Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
| Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, FR | |
| George Eastman House, Rochester, NY | |
| International Center of Photography, New York, NY | |
| Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA | |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY | |
| Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY | |
| Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX | |
| San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA | |
| Statoil Art Collection, Stavanger, Norway | |
| St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO | |
| Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK | |
| Yale University Art Gallery, Hartford, CT | |
| SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY | “Andrew Bush’s ‘Vector Portraits’: Still Images Of Cars And Drivers In Los Angeles.” The Huffington Post August 1, 2011. |
| Halle, Howard. "Andrew Bush, "Vector Portraits"". Time Out New York June 11-17 2009. | |
| Pundyk, Anne. "A Glance Backward While Driving Over the Edge". The Brooklyn Rail 2009: 16. | |
| Baldwin, Rosecrans. "Driving While Standing Still". The Morning News April 22 2009. | |
| Salsbury, Britany. "Andrew Bush". Artforum May 2 2009. | |
| "Galleries-Chelsea". The New Yorker-The Innovators Issue May 11 2009. | |
| Bush, Andrew. Drive. Yale University Press, April 2008. | |
| Kennedy, Marla Hamburg.. Looking at Los Angeles. New York: Metropolis Books, 2005. | |
| Siegel, Katy and Mattick, Paul. Money, London: Thames and Hudson, 2004. | |
| Bush, Andrew. Nest, Final nest: Bonnettstown Hall, Summer, 2003. | |
| Boyle, Kevin Jon, ed. Rearview Mirror: Automobile Images and American Identities, ) Riverside, California: California Museum of Photography, , 2000. | |
| Loke, Margaret, "Paying Homage to Books (Those With Covers)," The New York Times, August 1999 | |
| Saltz, Jerry, "Andrew Bush," Time Out, March 26, 1998 | |
| Voice Choices, March 10, 1998 | |
| Walcott, Ellison Austen, "Andrew Bush, A Fifteen Year Survey," March 15, 1998 | |
| Loke, Margarett, "Andrew Bush," The New York Times, March 27, 1998 | |
| Blind Spot, Issue 7, 1996 | |
| Schwendener, Martha, "Andrew Bush at Julie Saul," Art in America, December 1996 | |
| Schwendener, Martha. Art in America, December 1996 | |
| Hagen, Charles, "Andrew Bush," The New York Times, December 9, 1994 | |
| Grunstein, Raoul. "Ajovaylien Asukkaat", Image, November 1995 | |
| Hagen, Charles, The New York Times, December 9 | |
| "Recent Acquisitions - A Selection: 1993-1994", The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, Fall 1994 | |
| Hagen, Charles, "The Camera as a Weapon to Assault Modern Ills," The New York Times, June 11, 1993 | |
| Bush, Andrew, "Driving Through the Museum, Not to the Museum", Los Angeles Times, May 10, 1993 | |
| "Days of Getting, Spending and Photography, Too," The New York Times, May 30, 1993 | |
| Hagen, Charles, "People in Their Cars, Driving Along," The New York Times, March 27, 1992 | |
| "Man at his Best," Esquire, July 1992 | |
| Aletti, Vince, "Photo", The Village Voice, April 14, 1992 | |
| "Best Photos in the Metropolitan," Marie Claire (Japan), September 1992 | |
| "Personalien," Der Spiegel (Germany), December 1992 | |
| Aletti, Vince, "Summer Selection - Metropolitan Museum," The Village Voice, July 16, 1991. Ill. | |
| Russell, John, "There's Something New Under the Sun at the Met," The New York Times, July 14, 1991 | |
| Lorenzelli, Tiziana, "Los Angeles: Vita Sulle Freeways," Domus Magazine, October 1991 | |
| Malcolm, Janet, "Books, Pink Roses," The New Yorker, June 26, 1989 | |
| Grundberg, Andy, "Critic's Choice," The New York Times, May 25, 1986 | |
| LaRouche, Robert, "The Looks, Life of an Irish Manor," St. Louis Post - Dispatch, June30, 1986 | |
| Grainick, Herbert, "Irish Home's Ambience Captured in Photos," St. Louis Globe - Democrat, July 12-13, 1986 | |
| O'Reilly, "Review," June 10, 1986 | |