The following text is from Art in America by Mark Prince, December 30, 2013.

Andy Hope 1930's art posits a gray area between cultures one would have assumed were incompatible: German 20th-century figurative painting—from Beckmann to Kippenberger to André Butzer, a tradition of soured irony embodied by lumpen, angular mark-making—and the fast-and-loose world of late 20th-century American pop culture. The collision is thematically ubiquitous in Hope's work, right down to the name the former Andreas Hofer has adopted, and with which he has been signing his paintings for over a decade. Andy Hope is an English bastardization of his original German name, and 1930 his personal dating of the transference of Western cultural authority ...