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Austin
United States, Texas

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JOB: Oil painter
GENDER: Female
% OF INCOME FROM ART?: 25% or less
$ YOU SPEND ON ART SUPPLIES EACH YEAR: $100-999
MEMBER SINCE: 02/21/2008
LAST LOGIN: 05/11/2008 22:47:00
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Hi, thanks for your interest in my work. I have an extensive background in the making and studying of art, but I currently work in a marketing career with Ampersand Art Supply. Luckily, I get to work with artists and be around art all the time, although I do not get to paint as often as I like, which is where my heart truly lies.

The work is mainly abstraction. I have tried a number of genres including very gestural and landscape work, but find formal abstraction the most challenging and engaging to produce to date. I find making tactile surfaces and color/space relationships very intriguing. My inspiration is drawn from nature ie; natural colors, materials and surfaces as they relate to the human condition and their surrounding space or environment. I hope this piques your interest and I welcome your comments. Click on "view more pics" under my picture to go to my gallery or the link above my picture to visit my website.












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04/11/2008 09:49:41
Ever use a French curve rather than a ruler?  Came looking to see a new post, but alas, you must have other fish frying.


From: tautog
03/16/2008 21:05:55
Beautiful colors....the leftover study reminds me of the colors dekooning was  using in his later works.


03/04/2008 22:00:15
Hi Andrea, I'm in the same boat.  I usually don't work any bigger than 24" x 30".  My problem is that I paint so much that I'll run out of space if I go any bigger.  Keep painting my fellow MFA'er - Steven


From: apramuk
02/29/2008 23:07:11

You hit the nail on the head; I do relate to Scully in many ways. Wish I was lucky enough to have the art museum down the street, soon...very soon (see www.amoa.org). I've also been finding connections with the gee's bend ladies - seems there is something innately human in the making, measuring, connecting and rearranging the shapes, textures and colors..."an abstract narrative of thought and emotion". I'm working more with "worn looking" paired with "new/fresh" more recently, hope to post some new work soon in between trips to europe and the far
east ;).

-andrea


02/28/2008 20:38:50

Hmmm I guess I can't see the titles.  Are you using cigarettes to clean up the paint??! 

Good bye to bad habits eh?

Hans Hoffman did things with color squares, the push-pull thing. I think he stole ideas from Kandinsky.  So far I don't find work of his I resonate with, but perhaps in person they really speak.  I know he inspired a whole generation. Maybe there is something there for you as well.

I think you might need to travel, to collect new color impressions.  Perhaps Ampersand needs to send you over seas or to the north, that should be easy, right?   They could relate, I am sure.



02/28/2008 18:52:14

OK, the rest of your gallery is so geometric I will retract my Morris statement.  Perhaps op art or Mondrian, but certainly uniquely yours, colors and compositions.

 

greg



02/27/2008 23:47:57

Thanks for the widget, I think I got it right, and cut out some extra code ads.  William Blake was someone I studied deeply in college, but hadn't thought of him since an occasional image here and there.  Can't get it to play through the gallery yet like on the myartspace site, but it is pretty sweet. 

Still wonder about about the size of your forest of drips.

Greg 



02/27/2008 12:21:03
Your site is freaken' awesome!  I would love to add the music widget, but so far haven't put in the time.  I had a great friend in Austin, she does biography work.  But I wouldn't expect all Austinonians to know each other.  I see shades of William Morris in your work.  Are these big works?


02/26/2008 11:26:36
Beautiful work...are these large pieces?


From: sspishak
02/25/2008 19:55:48
i admire abstract but can't do it!  well, i have never painted abstract and i have 6 years of art school under my belt!  how do you do that?!!  i like your colors-





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