Andrew Modlin is a Los Angeles-based artist whose work explores the tension between the digital and the organic, the remembered and the imagined. He earned his BFA from UCLA, where he first developed a fascination with the emotional power of mark-making and the fluidity of perception.

After college, Andrew’s creative path took an unexpected turn. He founded a retail design firm that quickly gained traction for its immersive, detail-driven spaces. This led to his co-founding of MedMen, the first cannabis company to bring high design and mainstream retail strategy into a formerly underground industry. As the creative force behind the brand, Andrew designed more than 50 dispensaries across the U.S., transforming the way cannabis was seen, sold, and experienced.

But despite the scale of the business and its success –  along with other brands including Kreation Juice – art kept calling.

In recent years, Andrew returned to painting full-time, channeling his journey through commerce, culture, and chaos into richly textured works. His paintings often begin as quick iPad sketches made while traveling raw impressions of fleeting landscapes, domestic stillness, and quiet emotion which are then translated into layered physical compositions. Using vibrant strokes, digital motifs, and unexpected color palettes, Andrew constructs dreamlike terrains where memory and media collapse into one another.

He lives and works in Los Angeles, and is currently focused on a new body of work that revisits the emotional and visual language of places real, remembered, and reimagined.