"As a response to the prevalence of weapons and war in our society, I created the Weapons of Mass Destruction Revealed series. These are painted in candy colors and are often kept company with toys or bug like squirt guns. I am fascinated by the ability for minimal iconography to portray certain images such as guns and faces. That simplicity holds a strange power. I find the attractiveness of these weapons fascinating and pernicious."

Artist Biography

Andrea Lawson was born in Hollywood California. She received her BA from the University of California at Santa Cruz where she studied painting with Donald Weygandt, abstract expressionist Patrick Ahearne and printmaking with Kay Metz. She loved the Intaglio printmaking studio at U.C.S.C. and is now a founding member of Corvidae Press of Port Townsend. While receiving an MFA in Painting from Parsons School of Design, New School of Social Research, New York, NY, Andrea studied figurative painting with Paul Resika, Leland Bell and John Heliker.

Her work has been exhibited across the United States and in Europe and has received multiple awards. A partial list of Andrea's solo and juried exhibit locations include: The Painting Center, New York, The Cape Museum of Fine Art, The Cape Cod Art Association, and Montserrat College of Art, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania Academy of The Fine Arts, Gallery 110, Seattle, King County Arts Commission, Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, Gallery By The Bay, Stanwood, The Art Mine, Port Hadlock, Gallery K, Los Angeles, Portland Community College, Pennsylvania Academy of The Fine Arts and Ecole Nationale Superieur des Beaux Arts, Paris, France.

Andrea's work combines expressionist gestures with an observation of nature. She teaches classes and workshops on land and aboard the historic schooner, "Martha". Her studio overlooks Port Townsend Bay in Port Hadlock, Washington where she lives with her husband, a furniture designer and their two daughters.

"I love to move voluptuous paint in vibrant gestures across the canvas to create layers of texture in a jungle of ripe color. The impulse of human gesture gives rise to my kinetic painting process, inspired by dance and the lines and forms of the human body. My paintings resonate with emotion and a sense of mystery as hidden images are revealed in a dance of color and rhythm."