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Andy

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About Me



See my artwork at www.andygouveia.com
Look at my photos
And here's one of me dancing

My Interests

Painting, Drawing, Hiking, Trees, Comics, Film, Eating Pies Donuts Ice Cream and cookies, Joseph Campbell books on tape, Guitar, Jokes, Dance routines, Poplocking, Walking instead of driving, DMSR, all manner of illustration and Murals, Folk Music, Nature, Fresh Air with Terry Gross, NPR, the mystical, the mysterious, Mix CDs.

I'd like to meet:


You. While walking at a moderate pace.

Music:

Beachwood Sparks, Donovan, Prince, Kings of Convenience, Digable Planets, Dando Shaft, Fila Brazillia, Madlib, Joni Mitchell, Jethro Tull, Brightblack Morning Light, Broadcast, Ariel Pink, Mos Def, Phoenix, Yes, The Orb, Todd Rundgren, Byrds, the Michael Jackson, America, Roland Kirk, Miles Davis, Soft Machine, Pentangle, Vetiver, Fairport Convention, PG Six, CSNY, Neil Young, the Tower Recordings, Gentle Giant, Jonathan Richman, Boards of Canada, B12, Modern Lovers, Incredible String Band, Astrud Gilberto, Stevie Wonder, Frank Zappa, Maxwell, Tortoise, Wagon Christ, Erland, Luke Vibert, Vashti Bunyan, The Velvet Underground, Buffalo Springfield, Joanna Newsom, and too many others.

Movies:

Do the Right Thing, Annie Hall, Fantastic Planet, Gene Kelly

Television:

Simpsons!

Books:

Joseph Campbell, Shel Silverstein, The Road Less Travelled by M Scott Peck, The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran, Journey to Ixtlan by Carlos Castenada, Amos and Boris by Willaim Steig, Watership Down, Scary Stories to tell in the Dark, Be Here Now by Ram Dass, all those cheesy New Age Psychology books like Psycho-Cybernetics, and of course Sci-fi Illustration books from the Seventies

Heroes:

Joseph Campbell, Joni Mitchell, Gene Kelly, Jean Moebius Giraud, Willaim Steig, Shel Silverstein

My Blog

Mural - 50 North First

I spent two weekends in October painting a mural at 50 North First Street in Downtown SJ.  I painted for four days next to three other artists... including Kyle Pellet who did a colorful animal l...
Posted by Andy on Sun, 04 Nov 2007 12:28:00 PST

New Paintings - 4 Canvas works (Summer 07)

I've been working on canvas again lately.  Feeling very prolific, working on two new paintings and finishing an older one up.  Here's the results of the last four months. And the good news.....
Posted by Andy on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 04:41:00 PST

MACLA Gallery - Group show

I currently have one painting up at the MACLA Gallery in Downtown SJ on first street.  The show will be up until July 14, so go have a look for yourself.  Also in the show work by the graf q...
Posted by Andy on Wed, 04 Jul 2007 04:42:00 PST

New Paintings - June 2007

Wasteland IIIoceans below find a place very dark...
Posted by Andy on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 06:14:00 PST

Nucleus Gallery - Power in Numbers 2 Show

Returned from LA this weekend where I had three small 5x7 watercolors up in the POWER IN NUMBERS 2 show.  The show had featured a boatload of artists, all working in the 5x7 format. Emma Goo, Aya...
Posted by Andy on Thu, 24 May 2007 07:50:00 PST

Mural - Harajuku Tokyo Japan + Photos from Japan

I'm back from my journey to Japan.  I visited old friend and also met lots of swell folks.  Crossed the whole country and made it to the tropical paradise of Okinawa, Kyoto, the peace park i...
Posted by Andy on Wed, 25 Apr 2007 01:11:00 PST

New Paintings - April 2007

VesselEarthquake WeatherNew ManGravityEvening Eden...
Posted by Andy on Thu, 05 Apr 2007 09:12:00 PST

New Paintings - Jan 2007

PositiveLooked Up IIWasteland II...
Posted by Andy on Sat, 27 Jan 2007 12:32:00 PST

Children's Books Illustrations

I have just posted two new watercolor paintings on my website in the artwork : illustrations section.  Take a look at a detail here.  Peace!...
Posted by Andy on Tue, 21 Nov 2006 09:05:00 PST

Bears

Here are some drawings of Kodiak Bears.  All of them are from stuffed and posed bears in Anchorage, Alaska.  But even though they are dead, they are still hella scary, I swear....
Posted by Andy on Thu, 09 Nov 2006 12:25:00 PST