ARTIST STATEMENT
My work is about connection. How images and marks come together to form partnerships. I’m interested in the unexpected, and moments. I consider these collaged painted moments as captured spaces and homes that live abundantly within, and around us. I have a deep love for creating layers made from paper pieces and paint to share an array of narratives and emotions. The intertwining of these collaged images, mark making, and drawn and painted items serve as an internal landscape and map. Oftentimes revealing nonsensical, chaotic, and colorful snapshots. My most recent work explores family life, memory, and loss; to honor the sheer confusion, humorous weirdness, and sadness of daily life. I am contemplating the things that surround us and that abruptly drift away either harshly or silently.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Andrea first emerged on the scene as a spunky Midwesterner from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. After earning a BFA from The Maryland Institute College of Art (circa 1994), she relocated to Chicago, Illinois in 1995 and ever since has continued to make a home for herself and now with her family. In addition to years of artful makings and intense participation in the Chicago food industry, she received an MA in Counseling Art Therapy from Adler University in 2006. She currently works as a Licensed Art and Play therapist in her own private practice, Artful Growth Counseling PLLC. Integrating her worlds as an artist and an art therapist have been a natural coupling that happily allows for even more accumulation of art supplies and scraps of paper. She continues to have an enthusiasm for collecting all things tiny and anything vintage.
© Andrea Picard