b. 1981, San Francisco ∙ CE artist since 2006
Andrew Bixler creates colored pencil and ink portraits of willowy characters accompanied by brief explanatory text. His direct statements of fact turn the outrageous into the everyday, as Vikings, tree surgeons, magicians, the famous, and the infamous all make an appearance. Bixler’s line is free-flowing yet assured, and his palette is spare but energetic. Most often his portraits and his drawings of groups of objects (coffee cups, lemons, sunglasses) are situated against a plain background.
Bixler's ceramic pieces take the form of his portraits with loosely worked, expressive proportions while his renderings of animals in wire accented with fabric and found objects offer a beautiful, spectral counterpoint.
A man of many talents, Bixler also plays the piano and clarinet and is the first Creativity Explored artist to start his own art business.
Select Exhibitions & Projects
2019
Big Bellies, Jewish Community Center San Francisco, CA
Neighbors: Art from Next Door, Black & Blue Tattoo, San Francisco, CA
California Conference for the Advancement of Ceramic Art 2019, Davis, CA
2018
Faces and Places in the City, Eureka Valley/Harvey Milk Memorial Library, San Francisco, CA
2017
Exposed, Creativity Explored, San Francisco, CA
2016
Ripe, Creativity Explored, San Francisco, CA
Tabula Rasa, Creativity Explored, San Francisco, CA
2014
Shoerageous, Creativity Explored, San Francisco, CA
A Curious Menagerie, Creativity Explored, San Francisco, CA
2013
SIDESHOW, Creativity Explored, San Francisco, CA
2012
Fabulous, Creativity Explored, San Francisco, CA
2011
Hands on Clay, Creativity Explored, San Francisco, CA
Structure, Creativity Explored, San Francisco, CA
SMALL, Creativity Explored, San Francisco, CA
The Masters, Creativity Explored, San Francisco, CA
Black and White and Read All Over, Creativity Explored, San Francisco, CA
2010
Ritual/Habitual, Creativity Explored, San Francisco, CA
Spectrum, Creativity Explored, San Francisco, CA
Paper!Awesome!, Baer Ridgeway Exhibitions, San Francisco, CA
2009
"Science" Fiction, Creativity Explored, San Francisco, CA
Legend: Myth and Memory, Creativity Explored, San Francisco, CA
Untitled by Andrew Bixler, 2026
colored pencil on paper, 15 x 12 inches
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