Image: A photo of Andrew Reach smiling in front of his artwork, Quadrataflux 1.

Through an ArtLifting grant, Andrew Reach is translating digital geometry into dimensional installations, introducing movement, energy, and architectural precision into the built environment.

• Discover how custom 3-D art commissions can transform a corporate space through geometry, movement, and color.
• Clients will see how partnering with ArtLifting fuels artistic experimentation and long-term professional growth.
• ArtLifting's Community Impact Fund offers grants that enable artists to invest in new tools, invest in professional development, explore innovative mediums, and undertake more ambitious projects.

Cleveland-based artist Andrew Reach builds his artwork from structure. Trained as an architect, he spent more than two decades designing homes, offices, and cultural institutions. His experience includes serving as project architect for the Frost Art Museum at Florida International University. When he transitioned to making art full-time, his foundation of geometry, proportion, and spatial awareness never left him. It simply found a new form.

Andrew coined the term 3-D Derivatives to describe his process: constructing original 3-D models and transforming them into layered geometric compositions. Whether rendered digitally or realized in sculpture, his goal is the same. He calls it "Optical Joyfulness," a sense of rhythm, movement, and visual energy that activates a space.

Andrew shares,

"I may not be able to have unbridled energy and movement in my physical body, but I can through geometry and color."

Working in two dimensions has long been central to his practice, but Andrew has increasingly returned to three-dimensional forms. Sculpture lets him engage space directly, reestablishing his connection to architecture while opening new territory for experimentation. In three dimensions, he says, he can truly get lost in the work.

Image 1: Quadrans Circuli 4
Image 2: Nine-X
Image 3: Bits Glitch 1
Image 4: Citizens Collective

Andrew develops commissioned projects in which clients encounter his digital artwork and ask him to translate it into living, dimensional installations.

For Andrew, a 3-D commission begins with observation. He studies the environment, its scale, its light, the way people move through it, and the architectural language, before arriving at a guiding question: What can give energy to this space? 

From there, he considers whether the room calls for vertical lift or horizontal expansion, how geometry might ground the space or introduce upward movement, and how people will circulate around the artwork over time.

The goal is never simply to install a sculpture, but to create an experience. One where movement emerges from geometric form, rhythm builds through repetition and layered structure, and joyfulness becomes a defining quality of the room itself.

The result feels integrated rather than added. An extension of the built environment that brings clarity, vitality, and motion.

Image: Process of Andrew's project QUADRABAR from creation to installation for a corporation's HQ in Cleveland.

In 2025, 46 ArtLifting artists received grant support through the Community Impact Fund, which provides financial backing for self-identified professional development, strengthening artistic practice, and expanding access to new tools and mediums. As part of ArtLifting’s social impact model, 1% of profits from art sales fund the grant program, which is available to ArtLifting artists.

ArtLifting’s Professional Development Grant is one of the primary ways this support reaches artists. Designed to fund self-identified opportunities for growth, the grant enables artists to invest in tools, materials, education, and creative resources that directly strengthen their practice.

Funded proposals range from art supplies and studio space to workshops, museum access, and professional memberships, each tailored to what the artist needs most at that moment in their career.

For Andrew, the grant enabled the purchase of a 3-D printer.

The impact was immediate and concrete. With in-studio prototyping, Andrew can now test scale, study structural variations, and refine iterations before committing to final production. What once required outsourcing is now part of his daily practice. He can prototype faster and take on more ambitious commissions.

The grant has also reconnected him to dimensional work at a deeper level. He first explored 3-D forms in 2015, then revisited them after being commissioned to create artwork accessible to visually impaired individuals. That project reignited his interest in tactile and sculptural expression. 

Now, with prototyping technology in his studio, that experimentation is no longer occasional. It's ongoing.

Andrew’s exploration of 3-D work is already extending beyond the studio and into public space. His project MODEL CITIZEN is scheduled for installation in summer 2026 as part of The Art Garden, a micro park initiative led by artist Ariel Vergez and supported by the City of Cleveland’s Transformative Arts Fund. The installation will transform a vacant lot into a vibrant, community-centered environment — bringing Andrew’s signature geometry and sense of movement into an open, accessible setting.

As part of his process, Andrew uses Blender to create animated visualizations of his “Art-itectures,” pairing movement through digital space with original music to convey how the work will be experienced.

A preview rendering of MODEL CITIZEN offers an early look at how the installation will take shape in the space — watch it here.

Image: Process of Andrew's project MODEL CITIZEN from rendering to printing.

ArtLifting advances access to the art market by connecting artists with disabilities to socially conscious customers, creating meaningful spaces and products. Beyond income from art sales, the platform funds professional development grants, expanded market access, and marketing and sales support. As artists gain momentum, access to the right resources becomes just as important as the work itself.

Tools like Andrew's 3-D printer do more than support a single commission. They expand what an artist is capable of making, open new mediums, and shape what becomes possible for other clients. Each commission activates a space while building capacity for future opportunities.

Image: Process of Andrew's project QUADRAMID from rendering to printing.

Andrew's sculptural work builds directly from his architectural training, the same attention to proportion, spatial flow, and visual precision, now expressed through three-dimensional forms. By translating digital geometry into physical installations, he brings movement, rhythm, and structure into the spaces where people live and work.

With new tools in his studio and the support of an ArtLifting grant, Andrew's exploration of what geometry can do when given space to move continues to deepen.