Laguna Beach-based artist, Andrew Myers, was born in Germany and grew up in Spain. He studied classical sculpture at the Laguna College of Art and Design (formerly the Art Institute of Southern California) where he explored the craft and began to hone his voice. Today, Andrew uses a multitude of materials for the creation of his works which range from charcoal drawings to sculptures. He is best known however for his sculptural, screw portraits which he creates by tightly nailing thousands of screws to a base in a relief pattern similar to that of a 3D raised relief map. He then treats the heads of the screws as a canvas using oil paints in combination with the shadows created by the “hills and valleys” of the nail heads to map out his portrait subject’s facial features.