Mark Andres is a painter, filmmaker and educator. All of these things are important when considering his work, whose influences span both art history and film genres. Son of Illustrator Charles J. Andres, he is comfortable in pulling threads from across the full spectrum of pictorial references, including illustration and comic book art, as well as Fauvism, German Expressionism and cinema. He draws subjects from classical and allegory paintings in reimaginings that are uniquely his own. His 2022 exhibition “Indoors”, showcased a body of work created over the two years in which many of us were cossetted in our homes. During quarantine, he moved his studio to his home and developed remote teaching skills over Zoom. This isolation has resulted is a series of intimate portraits of people in interior spaces. There is particular attention to light in these paintings, as it beams from a lamp or streams through windows in carefully designed compositions as if each painting were an image from a film. The artist has said he wants his paintings to be like silent films. Mark Andres studied at Williams College, The Art Institute of Boston, and The University of Massachusetts (Amherst) . His paintings are in numerous public and private collections including the Portland Art Museum, the Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Maryhill Museum, Oregon Health and Sciences University and University of Portland. He is a recipient of a Massachusetts Artists Foundation Fellowship and an Oregon Literary Arts Award Grant. His silent animated feature films have been have been official selections at numerous film festivals and been awarded Best Animated Film at the Independent Filmmakers Showcase in Los Angeles (three times), the California Film Awards, the Hollywood Boulevard Film Festival, Los Angeles Independent Film Festival Awards, the Mexico International Film Festival, as well as received awards from the International Independent Film Festival Awards, Back in the Box Screenplay Competition, and LA Underground Film Forum. For his work as an educator, Andres is the recipient of a Gordon Galbraith Award for teaching excellence, a U.S. Bankcorp Teaching Award, a NISOD Award for Teaching (University of Texas, Austin) and he was named Higher Education Art Educator of the Year by The Oregon Art Educators Association. He has been on the faculty of PCC Rock Creek since 1991