Andy Ness

• I’m honored to announce my participation in the Venice Biennale as part of: Denniston Hill, Chimera (2006), The 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia – In Minor Keys by Koyo Kouoh The 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia will run from Saturday 9 May to Sunday 22 November 2026 at the Giardini and the Arsenale venues, and in various locations around Venice @dennistonhill @labiennale Image credit: Photo by Gaia Cambiaggi/Studio Campo. Courtesy of Denniston Hill

• miss bianca doesn’t play around when it comes to vintage shopping. i held her bags and generally enabled… @fuckoffy

• just ran into this B E A U T Y running errands… I ❤️ New York @sandragbernhard

. protesting banned words by the us government on the steps of the New York Public Library w Ellen Driscoll on May Day photos by Donna Aceto for Gay City News @driscoll1953 @donnaaceto @gaycitynews @nypl

• 10 yrs ago Prince died on this day. I could tell you about being from Minneapolis or I could tell you about skipping school in the 11th grade and seeing him in a vintage store and how it felt when he smiled at me or I could even tell you about how I was living in a sober house 1 mile from Paisley Park the night he died but I’m not going to do that. Prince said that a real friend or mentor cares for your soul as much as their own. Today I had my friend and mentor Ellen Driscoll over for lunch. She is someone who has cared for my soul as much as her own. Today I’m incredibly grateful for this Friend & Mentor. I’m grateful for sobriety. I’m grateful for Prince. 💜 @driscoll1953

• I’m excited that a few of my works on paper are included in “Cavalli d’Archivio nell’anno del Fuoco” a group show of works from the Studio d’Arte Raffaelli archive. Horses have played a major role in my visual lexicon for a long time and I’m grateful to rub shoulders with these artists who also feel a gravitational pull towards the Horse. If you find yourself in Trento swing through and check it out. Archive Horses in the Year of Fire Studio d’Arte Raffaelli April - June 2026 Monday to Friday 09:30-13:30/14:30-18:30 and on Saturdays 10:00-12:00/16:30-18:30. 🐎 @studiodarteraffaelli

• lunch with these two on a beautiful NYC day ☀️ @sandragbernhard @e._n._s._

• Thank you to all of the Friends I met this week at MIU. What an incredible place populated with the most authentic, generous, and talented folks. I heard great things about this place prior to arrival and still all expectations were far surpassed. Thank you for your hospitality MIU. I hope our paths cross again soon. 💫 @miuartdept @miu.art.ma.mfa @amanducarreri @jimshrosbree @metrican @sean_m_downey @gyanshrosbree @genevradaley @suisen_atelier

• It’s an honor to be heading to MIU this week to see this show that I’m in with Amanda Curreri. Special thanks to Susan Metrican for the vision she made reality. ARTISTS’ RECEPTION Friday, April 10, 6:30PM-8:30PM Wege Gallery GALLERY TALKS WITH AMANDA CURRERI & ANDY NESS Saturday, April 11, 10:00AM-11:30AM Wege Gallery Wege Center for the Arts 111 Dr. Robert Keith Wallace Dr., MIU, Fairfield, IA Mon-Fri 10:00AM - 3:30PM Sat 10AM - 4:00PM wegecenter.org The Wege Gallery presents Liber Floridus with Amanda Curreri and Andy Ness. Featuring woven and textile-based works by Curreri and multimedia works on paper by Ness, the exhibition presents a compendium of the artists’ visual lexicons that include symbols, imagery, and pattern rich with personal significance. The exhibition draws inspiration from the Liber Floridus or “Book of Flowers,” a medieval encyclopedia created in Northern France between the 11th and 12th centuries with contents that span geography, mathematics, natural history, astronomy, and countless other subjects. Known to be one of the earliest encyclopedias, its marriage of detailed illustrations and text intertwined spiritual knowledge with that of the natural world. In Liber Floridus at the Wege Gallery, the two artists blend content with materiality demonstrating a shared wonder within their processes and evolving subject matter. As an old book might fall open to a repeatedly visited passage, Ness and Curreri revisit specific imagery—references to human and animal bodies, folklore, architecture—while churning it through their own idiosyncratic artistic approaches in the studio. The artists’ processes and materials take on further significance within the context of Liber Floridus as one considers the historical implications within the work. @miuartdept @amanducarreri @metrican

• Bill Arning & Negrotts at the Outsider Art Fair @outsiderartfair @barning @billarningexhibitions @e._n._s._

• Andy Ness’ works vibrate with ethereal energy, glowing with metallic leaf, and grounded by recognizable imagery amongst colorful washes and textures. To achieve the widest range of opacity and transparency in his drawings, Ness mixes pigments and binders, incorporating walnut ink for its fugitive traits. As one of the primary inks used by medieval manuscript illuminators, its qualities become philosophically resonant as it shifts and oxidizes over time, paralleling the medieval sense of knowledge as always partial, always subject to revision. Just as encyclopedias are living documents rather than fixed authorities, so, too are Ness’ works, in a state of constantly arriving, finding voice from what came before. —Susan Metrican