Andrea Kielpinski's "S P A C I O U S" \;
\n\nKielpinski's Bio:
\nAndrea Kiel pinski is a painter\, photographer\, and chameleon. Her work reflects her eclectic journey: artist to engineering researcher to therapeutic musician to artist. Andrea&rsquo\;s practice is grounded in formal arts studies (S chool of the Art Institute of Chicago\, DePaul University Music School)\; Asian calligraphy training\; and her work in molecular physics and fluid t ransfer.
\nTextured abstraction\; archetypal line and symbol\; and c lose documentation of the everyday are recurrent themes\, united by her se nse of the poetic and of the overlooked. Andrea&rsquo\;s painting processe s of veiling and uncovering express the complexity of these half-hidden me anings. Recently she&rsquo\;s returned to a seemingly contrasting mode: th e stark minimalism of black-and-white photography. Both require acute obse rvation of the present moment.
\nAndrea recently completed an artist residency at Chateau Orquevaux&rsquo\;s International Artist Residency Pr ogram in France. Her work is carried in the Chicago area at Clay and Compa ny\, and in central Arkansas at the Central Arkansas Collective Gallery in Conway\, Arkansas.
\n\nArtist's Statement: \;
\nLast fall\, I spent a few weeks living in a chateau in Fran ce\, focused solely on making art. I felt that the outer world was on a pr ecipice\, contracting into fear\, division. Yet&ndash\;who knows why\, at such a moment?--I was let loose\, living and working in a place filled wit h joy and art and endless espresso.
\nSomething was indeed set loose . In the work: bigger canvases\, archetypal symbols\, shimmering color. In myself: a sense of emerging from a very old box whose sides had fallen aw ay. The word &ldquo\;spacious&rdquo\; kept reverberating there in France\, in my light-filled studio by day\, in my impossibly grand chateau bedroom each night. This show presents many of the works made in that studio. May be you can sense a box dissolving as you view them.
\nAfterward\, ba ck at home\, I continued working with that theme: spacious. But it became harder and harder to get back to that feeling. The irony of grasping at sp aciousness wasn&rsquo\;t lost on me. I even wondered if it was an affront to the violent constrictions so many people face\, to make art from the sp aciousness I could still find. One day I met an old friend on the street a nd voiced that concern. No\, she said\, now is when your art needs to remi nd us that &ldquo\;spacious&rdquo\; exists\, always. So I kept going.
\ nMay you be reminded.
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