BIO

Andrea Lewicki writes and makes art near Seattle. She works primarily in collage, often using it as a social practice to elevate a sense of belonging and connection. Andrea’s early rural life was insulated from traditional art and for years she struggled to reconcile and validate her creative yearning. Collage is ultimately where she found a home as well as a second childhood. Since then, she has shifted from solo studio work to a more expansive view of art as a primary social ingredient.

In her own art, both visual and literary, she is attracted to abandoned things and distortions of memory, starting with the tiny desert community of her Arizona upbringing. Andrea has contributed art to literary magazines including Jelly Bucket, Mud Season Review, Cream City Review, and High Shelf Press. Her work appears in art publications such as Create! Magazine, Cut Me Up Magazine, Juniper Rag, and books released by Jen Tough Gallery. She is the founder of Special Agent Collage Collective, an international gathering in the scissors-and-glue-stick world, and Collage-O-Rama, an annual celebration of collage community currently held in Seattle.

ARTIST STATEMENT

I dig poetry of the surreal and prose-y variety, and my art tends toward that direction. It’s often collage, which just means I cut things up and mix them together until I get the level of weird I’m looking for. I take pleasure in destroying my art, sometimes to repurpose it, sometimes to release attachment to the stories associated with creating it. Writing and making visual art are symbiotic processes for me. I move fluidly between them, letting one influence the other. In either medium, I am motivated by finding surprise in the margins and cathartic inclusion.