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Figures

I began making small figurative sculptures of wax and pigment in response to the events at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon of September 11, 2001.  Reports of family members and friends searching for their loved ones grew while the absence of reports of wounded and dead took on an even more haunted tone. As I listened to the news, increasingly distressed, my personal memorial took shape. Each figure I made represented a person from a country that lost a citizen to the terrorist attacks. Now, years later, the original number of figures has been surpassed yet I continue to add to my memorial. The series, called “Some of the Missing”, provides me with a powerful means to express my love for the human form and the depth of my feelings.

About the Artist

For many years I lived and worked in the Columbia River Gorge, a place of astounding beauty. The intensity of life there is overwhelming-trees, waterfalls, and wild
flowers are profuse and enormous. Elk in my backyard and sea lions in the river have left their mark on both geography and mind. Nature
is my great teacher and the nurturer of my inspiration and wonder.
Living now in the city I understand more: The wonders of nature are everywhere. I am nature too.
I look, I translate and interpret: painting, drawing, sculpting, playing with materials interactive and enticing. Patterns in nature and self become visible from the perspective of years.
Right now I think of my work as a kind of time meets space experience, a manifestation of a marriage of the personal to the universal. Each piece (drawing, painting or sculpture) is a process of looking from the world to the self. Oh, a seed! Oh, a cycle! Yes, that is what I see and that is what I am too. In their absolute banality and glory, beauty and wonder are everything.

Contact

Email Andrea

Butters Gallery

AND NEWS:
SHOWS AND EVENTS
New Beginnings, Eugene Airport
at Karin Clarke Gallery: Eugene Biennial and Artist Made Card Event
With Maude Kerns Art Center:"Finding Rothko, Beall Concert Hall and 2018 MKAC Member Show

In 2017 Maryhill Museum acquired, from the estate of artist Rick Bartow, my painting "Path: A Walk in the Park"


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