Self Portrait #1 (NYC), 2006
Andy Rappaport (b. 1957, New York City) is a sound and video artist whose work draws on his experience as a photographer, musician, composer, and technologist. His newest project, not [TEXT], combines sound, images, and AI technology to explore the human compulsion to extract meaning from the smallest fragments of recognition. Other work, both solo and in long-standing collaboration with Deborah Oropallo, has dealt with various cognitive, social, environmental, and political themes.
Andy’s solo and collaborative work has been widely exhibited and is in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Kramlich Collection, and 21C, as well as many private collections.
With his wife Deborah, Andy is also the Founder of the Minnesota Street Project and Minnesota Street Project Foundation, which provides support for visual arts and artists and facilitates connections between visual arts and the community in the San Francisco Bay Area.