Andrea Wohl Keefe
Knot Painting 7, 2023
watercolor and gouache paints
16 x 12"

About the work

My work is motivated by my interest in psychology. In particular, I am interested in how we bring together the information our sensory observations provide into narratives that we use to define who we are and what we come to believe about the world we live in. The knotted forms in my art represent the ways our thinking becomes connected to our past experiences - the way we develop our perspective and subjective history. As for the corporeal elements seen in my work, they can be animated or paralyzed by our thoughts, and adversely they can be manipulated by our actions. It is about taking control and giving up control. Generally, what interests me is how this entirely subjective experience is what we share with others, and it is also what makes us uniquely different from one another. When another person truly "gets you", it's like they've crossed this great chasm and reinforced what it means to be human.

Bio
Andrea Keefe received a BFA from the University of Michigan and an MFA from Miami University. She has participated in residencies at Vermont Studio Center, Soaring Gardens, and Arts, Letters and Numbers. Andrea has been making art and sharing it through exhibitions at the Lyet Gallery at Elizabethtown College, the Albers Gallery at Allens Lane Art Center, the Winter
Gallery at Millersville University, the Speer Gallery at the Shipley School, the artists-run gallery, Grizzly Grizzly, and the Marlin Gallery at Camden County Community College. In addition to making art, Andrea teaches art at Central High School in Philadelphia. She also curates art exhibitions as co-director of MAC and its latest interaction miniMAC.

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