Andrew Grassie (born 1966) is a

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artist. Grassie paints highly detailed and self-referential

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on paper copies of photographs. He was educated at

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and the

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Grassie's work of the late 1990s and early 2000s included tempera on paper studies of the gallery interior in which they were exhibited (1997), and small copies of photographs of 1960s minimalist sculpture (2002).Ken Johnson

''The New York Times'', July 12, 2002. In 2004, he won a "Special Merit" award at the 23rd

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for his work ''The Making of the Painting'', which shows the space in which he made the painting. In 2005 he had a solo exhibition at

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, as part of the Art Now series. He exhibited tiny paintings of an imaginary "rehang" of works from the gallery.Jonathan Jones
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''The Guardian'', Monday June 6, 2005. To make the paintings Grassie moved the actual works to the exhibition space, photographed them, and then made copies of the photographs in tempera.Laura Cumming

''The Observer'', Sunday May 8, 2005. His paintings have been praised for being "disorienting" and "melancholy", and criticised for consisting of "bureaucratic ironies". His works are held in the collection of the

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and the

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. He lectures at

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. Andrew Grassie is represented by

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