Tape, Paper Towels, Pool Balls: Artist Turns Everyday Symbols Into Meditations On Restriction, Fragility And Self‑discovery

Andy Cash DeLapp is a transgender oil painter based in Seattle, WA, who earned his BFA from Cornish College of the Arts in 2023 and has quickly gained recognition as a Neddy Award finalist and SAM Emerging Arts Leader.

His figurative paintings draw from old masters’ techniques while incorporating contemporary symbols like tape (for restriction/censorship), paper (fragility), internet memes and everyday objects (sad paper towels with leaf faces, pool balls) to explore chaos, entropy, identity and queer experience. Recent shows include “Symbiotic Loops” with pieces like “Shell Seeker” and “Thread of Vitality” (oil on panel), plus restaurant murals for Uncle Dom’s Italian and Public Display Pride works, with originals/prints available via his site and ArtLove Salon.

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