Andrea Lyons
A Room Divided
Oil painting on wood shape

35" x 27"

About the work

I have been doing oil paintings on wood shapes for a while now. They have evolved and originally I painted on canvas stretched on wood shaped bars but found myself fascinated by wood itself. I related it to how the wood has similarities to the skin of a human being in the aging of the skin and the aging of a tree, with its bark and the increasing of the rings inside of it. I love the patterns and textures of wood and emphasize it playfully with colors of the paint I use. The shapes I have always been interested in . Some of them are architectural as I often think of the shapes of a home and the interior spaces of it.

About the artist

Andrea has a BFA in Printmaking and Art Education from Tyler School of Art, and a Certificate and MFA from The Pa.Academy of Fine Arts in Painting. She has exhibited mostly in the Philadelphia area although she had a solo exhibition of her work in 1993 at The Julie Heller Gallery in Provincetown,Ma. Andrea has won many awards throughout her career, including The Edna Andrade Award in Painting for an Emerging Artist from The Leeway Foundation for Women in the Arts. This year, she most recently won an Award for Excellence from The Fellowship of the Pa. Academy of the Fine Arts. The Fellowship Awarded her a Purchase Prize Award in 1993.Her past history includes teaching Art in Philadelphia Public Schools for twenty five years.

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