Collection: ABOUT Andree
Andree is experiencing a wave of inspiration making sculptures again. After a long period of making jewelry, she put it aside and returned to building larger pieces. The sculptures are organic, and abstract, influenced by forms she might find in the woods, like nuts, leaves, or branches. At the ocean she is enthralled by the rocks, shells, seaweed, or drift wood. Her goal is to define their character, and hear their voice. Currently she is working on a leaf collection, cast in bronze or porcelain, and plans to start enlarging the pieces to three feet this year.
Her initial art training was with a NYC abstract expressionist painter, Vita Petersen. Petersen was hands on, never allowing a painting to be complete until every corner was explored. Upon graduation from Spence School, Petersen granted Andree the Spence Artists Award and sent her off to RISD to further her education.
RISD was one of the most life changing and happiest times of her life as an artist, a virtual candy store of possibilities. She explored metal, wax, glass, hollow-ware, plaster, clay, textiles, and paper. Armed with vision and the right tools, her creativity blossomed under the instruction of some of the finest art professors in the field, with lectures by artists like Claes Oldenburg along with the inspiration of fellow art students. Free time was spent under the Providence railroad tracks to scavenge iron and wood train parts for sculptures. The RISD pub was the hang where students would drink beer and eat peanuts for sustenance, while David Byrne and Tina Weymouth rocked in the background. These were pulsating times with few rules except to produce artwork in any possible way.
EDUCATION
Creative Breakthrough Lab 2019-Current
Rhode Island School of Design BFA Providence, R.I. ’77 sculpture.
The Spence School New York, NY ‘73
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
Weir Farm National Historical Park, Wilton Ct. August 2023
Zero Foot Hills Durham, Ct. August 2022
EXHIBITIONS
Limner Gallery Hudson, NY April 2023
Grosse Pointe Artists Association January 2023
James Library and Center for the Arts November 2022
Accent on Design Gallery Truro, Ma. July-August 2021, 2022, 2023
Undercroft Gallery February 2022, 2023
RISD Craft Show Providence, R.I. June 2022
WomensWork.Art Poughkeepsie, NY December 2021, 2022
Worcester Art Museum, Solo, Worcester MA 1990
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Boston MA 1989
Barbara Singer Fine Art, Solo, Cambridge MA 1980-1985
Wingspread Gallery, Northeast Harbor ME 1977-1982
Private Bronze Sales
Josephine Corning May 2022
Wallace Davis June 2021
Maria Berkman Smith May 2021
Andrews Little December 2022
SCULPTURE 1980-2020
Worcester Art Museum, Solo, Worcester MA 1990
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Boston MA 1989
Barbara Singer Fine Art, Solo, Cambridge MA 1980-1985
Wingspread Gallery, Northeast Harbor ME 1977-1982
JEWELRY DESIGN
Archipelago, Rockland ME
Shaw Contemporary Jewelry, Northeast Harbor ME
The Textile Museum, Washington D.C.
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore MD
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn NY
Museum of Arts and Design, NYC, NY
American Folk-Art Museum, NYC, NY
Winterthur Museum, Winterthur DE
Jacob Javits Convention Center, NYC, NY
RISD Alumni Show, Providence RI
Acknowledgements
I would like to thank the following people for helping me to build this site, and more importantly, always believing in me.
Andree 07 21 2022
MITCHELL RIGIE leader in creative thinking mitchell@mitchellrigie
Creative Breakthrough Lab
TOM BLOOM actor, photographer tombloom2@gmail.com tombloom.com
FRANK CAMPANALE designer, business advisor disenoboston.com
DIANA RUTHERFORD food stylist, executive chef di.ruth25@yahoo.com
VINCENT LISI graphic designer vincelisi181@gmail.com
MARCOS CABRERA ESPINOSA technology support@mcetechsolutions.com
LISA ROSE editor lisaroseandrews@yahoo.com
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