Andrew Alba is a prolific self-taught artist, musician, construction worker, and a descendant of Mexican migrant workers. Alba is keenly aware of the politics of hard labor—and its effects on the body. Using non-traditional materials collected from his day job in construction, Alba communicates anti- establishment narratives to the working class. Employing techniques found within abstraction and neo-expressionism his work is created to evoke an emotional response while commenting on contemporary politics and society. He creates work without the academic elite’s theoretical constraints and critical expectations.
Andrew Alba was born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah, and spent a handful of years in Portland, Oregon. Alba has exhibited throughout Utah and in the Pacific Northwest. He received a Visual Arts Fellowship from the Utah Division of Arts and Museums and was selected to complete a residency as part of the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art Artist-in- Residence program.