Drew Eastwood MFA ’24

My name is Drew Eastwood (b. Michigan, USA), and I am an artist, educator, independent curator, and writer based out of Portland, Maine. I earned a BA from Saginaw Valley State University and an MFA from Maine College of Art & Design. A collagist-painter, I collect printed matter and photographic images that are unified into zany harlequin characters aware of something awry; recognizing that their eccentricity is what makes them human. As life offers up confusing mixtures of vastly different experiences, collage opens up the ability to redefine what it means to exist. Through a conceptual and physical collagist approach, my figures reaffirm that collage is one broken-down fragment, bearing no relation to another, revealing the hodge-podgedness of the world.