Andrea Lewicki

Andrea Lewicki (b. 1974) is an award-winning abstract artist, late blooming and largely self-taught. Insulated from traditional art for most of her life, her childhood was spent in a tiny desert community of retirees in northeastern Arizona. After an initial career in chemical engineering, she found a more natural home in abstract art, "a place where nothing is obvious, straight-on, or predictably duplicated."

Andrea has contributed visual art to zines and literary magazines including Mud Season Review, Cream City Review, and High Shelf Press. Her work has appeared in art publications such as Create! Magazine, Juniper Rag, and books released by Jen Tough Gallery.

Despite studio hermit life beyond the Snoqualmie Valley, she is active in several collage communities and is the founder of Special Agent Collage Collective, an international group of 100+ artists.

Andrea dreams of discovering third places, running a cheese shop, and writing perfect romance novels.

Artist’s Statement:
I have been a puzzle fanatic since I was a child, my eyes searching for a pattern or even the tiniest clue to help reveal the solution.

Creating a collage is similar to solving a puzzle except the solution is completely up to me. I move the pieces around, study their relationships, and keep rearranging until I see a story.

These collages are part abstract stream-of-consciousness and part puzzle solving. Creating this work was an act of creative faith, a belief that all the pieces would add up to something complete.

I recognize dream material in the cuts and layers. The colors are sharp, not the muted tones associated with recollected dreams. There is always that yellow ringing true and bright. Whatever secret place is hidden within these patterns, it is somewhere I want to be.