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Andrew Falkowski

Headshot of Andrew Falkowski outdoors, wearing glasses and a black shirt, with a brick building and blue sky in the background.

Assistant Professor

Areas of Specialization: Contemporary Painting with a focus on Text Painting; Expert in the formulation of diverse paint media, including Distemper, Temperas, Casein, Oil, and Acrylics, and specialized priming techniques.

M.F.A. California Institute of the Arts. Valencia, CA
Email: Andrew.Falkowski@stonybrook.edu / afalkowski27@gmail.com
Office: Staller Center for the Arts #4xxx
Office Hours: TBA
Website:https://andrewfalkowski.com

Andrew Falkowski is an artist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Art at Stony Brook University, SUNY. His work has moved across portraiture, collage, text, and tondo painting, developing discursive bodies of work that investigate the relationships between language, material process, and visual form. Central to his practice are text-based paintings that recombine fragments of everyday language—drawn from advertising, popular culture, and printed ephemera—into constructed “ransom note” compositions that examine how cultural narratives are absorbed, internalized, and reconfigured.

Falkowski’s practice is grounded in sustained material inquiry, engaging a wide range of painting processes and substrates to explore the interplay between the linguistic, the indexical, and the haptic. His work often unfolds in suites, where ideas are tested, repeated, and transformed over time, producing a recursive studio methodology that balances continuity with moments of departure.

He has exhibited widely in the United States, with solo exhibitions at Elder Gallery, Nebraska Wesleyan University; Adds Donna, Chicago; and Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, among others. Recent exhibitions include Pattern Recognition at The Plan, Chicago (2024), This is the One at Flight Gallery, San Antonio (2023), and Skull Rock on Treasure Island at Sweet Lorraine Gallery, New York (2025). He was an Artist in Residence at the Ragdale Foundation (2023) and is the recipient of a Faculty Enrichment Grant from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2024–2025) and an IDA Grant from Stony Brook University (2026).

Andrew Falkowski holds a BA from the University of California, Santa Cruz, an MA from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts.