About

Drew Eastwood (b. Michigan, USA) is an artist, educator, and arts organizer based out of Portland, Maine. He earned a BA from Saginaw Valley State University and an MFA from Maine College of Art & Design. A collagist-painter, Eastwood collects printed matter, photographic images, and daily environmental dross which are unified into zany harlequin characters who are aware of something having gone awry; recognizing that their eccentricity is what makes them human. As life offers up confusing mixtures of vastly different experiences, collage opens up the ability to redefine what it means to exist. Through a conceptual and physical collagist approach, Eastwood’s figures reaffirm that college is one broken-down fragment, bearing no relation to another, revealing the hodge-podgedness of the world. 

Eastwood has most notably exhibited at WOLF (Walpole Ontological Land & Farm), Walpole, ME; Gallery263, Cambridge, MA; 49 Oak Gallery & Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, ME; and the UAG, Saginaw, MI. Accompanying his studio practice, Eastwood is involved with cooperatively organizing an apartment gallery entitled, Easthaus and has kickstarted a quarterly art publication called GUT Mag. This is done alongside their partner, Alyssa Schadhauser, cat, frog, two spiders, a plethora of isopods, and vast collection of trinkets, artist zines, and lush greenery.

He is currently offering his professional services to the Maine College of Art & Design as the BFA Painting Technician, and Continuing Studies Faculty.