Andrew Alcasid
Photo: Ian Patzke
Andrew Alcasid (b.1987) is a Southern California based artist. Born in the Mira Mesa neighborhood of San Diego, Alcasid is primarily self-taught, although he has taken art classes at San Diego City and Mesa college. With a wide range of talents, his artistic inclinations have found him creating drawings, paintings, large-scale installations, and ceramics. Coming to the field in a non-traditional fashion, his early forays into the arts were spent creating art in the form of graffiti and street art. He furthered his academic art development through the Museum Studies program at San Diego Mesa College.
When looking at his influences within the contemporary art cannon, Alcasid draws inspiration from the west coast light and space artists of the 60’s and 70’s. Currently displaying work throughout San Diego, his work has been exhibited in numerous group and solo exhibitions throughout the region. Alcasid has held a long-term artist residency at Bread and Salt where the publication BMT (blood and marrow transplantation) was released and exhibited his series of watercolors in a solo exhibition.
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