Andrea Lewicki

Andrea Lewicki
Carnation, Washington, USA

STATEMENT

I dig poetry of the surreal and prose-y variety, and my art tends toward that direction. It’s often collage, which just means that I cut things up and mix them together until I get the level of weird I’m looking for. There’s a story somewhere in the layers of each piece that leaves my studio. Joan Miró, Cy Twombly, and Hilma af Klint hang out in my brain along with a lifelong practice of handcrafts traditionally seen as women’s work: sewing, mending, knitting, and crocheting.

Writing and making visual art are symbiotic processes for me. I move fluidly between them, letting one influence the other. In either medium, I am motivated by finding surprise in the margins and cathartic inclusion.

BIO

Andrea Lewicki writes and makes art near Seattle. She works primarily in collage, often using it as a social practice to elevate a sense of belonging and connection.

In her own studio work, she is attracted to abandoned things and distortions of memory, starting with the tiny desert community of her Arizona childhood. Andrea has contributed art to literary magazines including Jelly Bucket, Mud Season Review, Cream City Review, and High Shelf Press. Her work appears in art publications such as Create! Magazine, Cut Me Up Magazine, Juniper Rag, and books released by Jen
Tough Gallery. She is the founder of Special Agent Collage Collective, an international gathering in the scissors-and-glue-stick world, and Collage-ORama, an annual celebration of collage community currently held in Seattle.

Writing was Andrea’s first creative love and she is slowly finding her way back to it. She has lived half a century without cooking a turkey or wearing a sports jersey and sees no reason to alter the course.

ARTIST CONTACT

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