Gretchen Andrew

Gretchen Andrew is a painter and hacker who manipulates systems of power through art and technology. Her unique practice stems from her background at Google and a formal painting apprenticeship with the artist Billy Childish. Known for merging traditional oil painting with strategic information systems and emerging technologies, she works across mediums to interrogate and manipulate the structures that shape beauty, influence, and authority in the digital age. Gretchen’s Facetune Portraits series explores how aesthetics, AI, and algorithmic visibility collide. She first gained recognition for her internet interventions and conceptual use of search engine manipulation, but it is her unique fusion of classical painting with digital subversion that has earned critical and institutional acclaim. In 2025, The Whitney Museum of American Art acquired two of her Facetune Portraits into its permanent collection, with unanimous and enthusiastic support from the museum’s committee.

From The Artists at the Intersection, December 2025