When I was visiting Studio 17 in the Mission and discussing
Collage meets Landscape
with another artist, she immediately said, “You
must meet Andrea!”
I followed her down the hall to Andrea’s studio and, before I could even
say hello, I knew I had to have her work in the show.
Andrea’s does cut paper collages of landscapes and wildlife
scenes.
At first glance they
reminded me of cheerful, old fashioned, paint-by-numbers works.
A closer look and you realize they are
all constructed from hand cut pieces of colored paper.
And the images can be deceptively sweet
until you take a second look and realize the wildlife is often exacting revenge
on humans and other animals.
Some
are quite twisted but the palette prevents them from being described as
“dark.”
I keep returning to her
website, and every time I do, I
find myself laughing out loud at things like polar bears wrestling great white
sharks and raccoons smoking big fat joints.
More of Andrea’s work can be seen on her
website.
The
Collage + Landscape = Collagescape will be on view at San Francisco’s Glama-Rama Salon and Gallery at 304 Valencia
Street in San Francisco.
The show runs from July 29 to September 28, 2014 with an
opening reception on Friday, August 1 (7pm to 10 pm).
The exhibit will have two components:
On the main level, there will be an exhibit of my new series
of work called
Collagescapes.
On the upper level of Glama-Rama, I am curating a companion
show of mixed media works, where the theme will be
Collage meets Landscapes.
