Andrew Sutherland: The Artist Of Silver Lining

On October 25 I found an eccentric style of artwork. As I was walking through the Nerman Museum looking for a piece of artwork that spoke to me. I wandered through many sculptures made from different types of material, and gazed upon clay pots with vibrant colors and engravings. All were beautiful and extravagant, but, as I looked nothing caught my eye. I rounded one of the very last rooms of the Nerman museum and there it was. Instantly I knew that's the artwork I want to tell others about. For me this artwork shows that you can turn the most lifeless unappealing material into something full of worth. It wasn't a normal flat painting, it wasn't a sculpture or a clay pot. Instead it was an acrylic art piece on a large canvas. It was the singular
Sutherland was born in 1978 in Ann Arbor, MI. Sutherland went to Fort Lewis College in Durango, Co for his bachelor's degree studying multimedia art. Some of Sutherland's popular art shows were at the Lundgren Gallery Residency, Edel Assanti, and The Still House Group. Sutherland uses materials such as cardboard, plastics, magazine catalogs, vinyl, and fiberboard. He calls his art “sculptural graffiti” because of the different types of materials he uses to create it. Sutherland is best known for his artwork were he cut into a stack of papers and made it gain the appearance of a wooden grain. This is ironic because it shows how Sutherland made the paper appear to turn back to it’s original form of
A trash bag is useful in its own ways, but nobody thinks of it as beautiful or deserving of appreciation. Sutherland turning this trash bag into a piece of art speaks to me, that even the most unappealing objects have worth. That’s the same concept with people. People often put others on pedestals and bring others down, saying they're not worth what other people are. This is a big problem in our society, because people that are different they feel as they don’t have the same worth as others. I know first hand what that feels like. When I was 17 years old I was diagnosed with general anxiety disorder. I felt I wasn’t the same or as good as other people. I didn’t feel like I could handle situations the way normal people could. I would get overwhelmed easily and over think about every possible thing happening. To help change the way I was and to be “normal” as everyone else I went to the doctor for answers. The doctors then prescribed me many different medications, none of them seemed to work. They all had nasty side effects such as dizziness and nausea. Then finally they put me on a medication called Viibryd. Viibryd was a medication used for severe depression. I myself didn’t have depression, but they said it would help with my anxiety. After two weeks of taking the medication I felt even worse about myself. My brain felt like it was getting