The Raven 1998
Andreas Engel

oil on canvas
36″x54″

$12,000 Unframed.
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A personal note about this piece:

Growing up in Guatemala, I occasionally visited Antigua, Guatemala. The city holds remnants of architecture built in the 1500’s by Spanish conquistadors and eventually destroyed by a series of earthquakes beginning in the 1700’s. This painting is of the ruins of the Church of Santa Rosa de Lima built in 1570 for a sisterhood known for their white clothing. Visiting this structure in the 90’s I was drawn to the contrast of the remaining intricate façade coupled with the hauntingly vacant internal space—once a dome, and now open to the sky and the elements.

Painted with thick layers of oil paint applied with a palette knife, the surface quality replicates the cracked plaster of the actual structure. Thematically, I added the raven to signal a spiritual presence coupled with a shadow of the past. –Æ

Furnace Brook 2023
Andreas Engel

oil on wood
27″x27″

$7500 Unframed.
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A personal note about this piece:

In Richmond, MA, there is a rambling brook surrounded by pastoral fields and running beneath the Housatonic train line.. For a short time, I lived on the other side of those train tracks and frequently walked my dog past this view. One day, I passed by and noticed the moon in the sky and was immediately struck with the inspiration to immortalize the moment. I had an antique steel frame that I had been saving for years, and I decided this painting would be the perfect subject for it. –Æ

The Vision of Old Chichoj 2002
Andreas Engel

oil on canvas
56.5″ x 68.5″

$18,000 Unframed.
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A personal note about this piece:

This painting depicts a Mayan legend originating from a remote area in the Guatemalan highlands where I spent my childhood. According to local accounts, angry gods hurled a large boulder to destroy a city’s wicked ways, resulting in a crater that later filled with water, forming Lake Chichoj. At the bottom of the lake, the old city and a bound serpent lay waiting to be revealed—only during the rare occurrence of a full moon in a clear sky at the turning hour of a new calendar year. Viewers of the painting find themselves in those conditions, standing at the water’s edge and peering into a vision.

The painting includes the plumed vision serpent Qʼuqʼumatz (commonly related to Quetzalcoatl), a key mythological Mayan deity associated with water and the underworld.

Painted primarily with palette knives, thick layers of blue provide a luminescent depth, as well as surface reflections. The painting evolves dramatically under changing light conditions, revealing an endless surprise of secrets. –Æ