Andrew Schwartz (b. New York) is a Brooklyn-based painter whose process-oriented practice investigates the possibilities of abstract visual language through sustained material inquiry. Working primarily in acrylic on rigid panel and heavyweight paper, Schwartz constructs luminous, layered compositions that emerge through improvisation, repetition, and chance—privileging discovery over predetermined outcomes. Employing studio techniques such as pouring, scraping, rubbing, and layering, and utilizing non-traditional industrial tools including air blowers, sponges, and sprayers, Schwartz allows the inherent behaviors of paint in motion guide formal decisions. His surfaces accumulate through successive acts of application and excavation, functioning as sites for impressions, residues, and transformations. The resulting imagery oscillates between the microscopic and the macroscopic—evoking cellular structures, geological formations, weather systems, and cosmic phenomena—while remaining resolutely abstract. Schwartz's practice is characterized by a commitment to slow looking and the physical intimacy of painting as both object and experience. He has exhibited at Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn; D.D.D.D., New York; The Painting Center, New York; Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York; MoCA Long Island, Patchogue; Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington; and NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, among others. His work has been discussed on Yale University Radio with Praxis Interview Magazine. Schwartz has lectured at Cornell University, Pratt Institute, Fordham University, and Purdue University, and was a recipient of an NES Artist Residency in Skagaströnd, Iceland. Schwartz holds a BFA in painting and sculpture from Cornell University (2010) and an MFA in painting from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University (2016). He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.