Above: Cruising with Clark (My Grandmother and Clark Gable)

Acrylic on Canvas, Gallery Wrapped

48" x 60"

"Many artists assume alter-egos. For Marcel Duchamp, it was Rose Selavy (translated in English to “Eros, that is life”), 

and for German surrealist Max Ernst it was a bird named “Loplop.” For Michael Andryc, it’s his Polish grandmother. 

Michael is a self-proclaimed “sophisticated primitive artist” (yes, he acknowledges the inherent irony of such a title). He admits 

that as a child he was “deathly afraid” of his Babka Anna Andryc, in part because she spoke a foreign language in a time 

when “no one wanted to talk about their origins before coming to America,” and because she was a woman more tenacious 

than the era allowed . . . .' She was such a strong woman—married three times—something which was unheard of 

in those days. One husband even mysteriously disappeared.' Now Michael enjoys hiding behind her 

in his paintings, traveling with her on outlandish adventures."

- Oli Robbins, Arts Editor, Bernalillo Signpost, 2016