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I Have Not Been Comfortable In My Skin Perhaps Ever, Not Now And Certainly Not Back Then, 2014, 18x24" acrylic/pencil on wood -
As Children We Built An Entire Miniature Neighborhood In Which We Controlled Everything From The School House To The Sunset. This Game Went On For An Embarrassingly Long Time, Well Into Our Teens, And I Was The Last One To Give It Up, 2014, 10x16" acrylic/pencil on wood -
Exploration Of Carnal Thoughts On Birch Street, 1995, 2014, 16x20" acrylic/pencil on wood -
If You're Okay Then I'm Okay And We Can Do This Until We're Very Old, 2014, 11x14" acrylic/pencil on wood -
Circle Jerk With Devil Women On Poplar Street, 2014, 16x20”, acrylic/pencil on wood -
Pillow Fights In The Neighborhood Were Things Of Legend. As Each Crop Of Girls Reached Puberty Yet Another Season Of Pillow Fights Sparked Off, Erupting With All The Tension Of Tender Youth Forced Into The Most Transformative Of Their Lives., 2014, 36x48”, acrylic/pencil on wood -
I Have Always Believed Houses Hold Their Own Memories, 2015, 16X20, acrylic/pencil on wood -
Poplar Street Was Like A Dozen Others To The East Or West Of It And Friday Nights Looked Like This: 10 PM Parents' Bedroom Light Goes Out, Girls' Room Lights Stay On, 11 PM Boys At The Window, Hand Over Fists Up The Trellis, 2015, 16X20, acrylic/pencil on wood -
The Eagle's Nest Was The Pinnacle Of Our Playground And Its Peak Was Reserved For Our Version Of Royalty, The Popular Children. The Rest Of Us Scrambled For A Lowly Bar. 2015, 16X20, acrylic/pencil on wood
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Andrea is a self-taught painter and has just finished her time as the first artist-in-residence at Idrawalot in Berlin Neukölln. She paints the dark, weird and hidden sides of suburban life with lengthy and bizarre titles like “As Children We Built An Entire Miniature Neighborhood In Which We Controlled Everything From The School House To The Sunset. This Game Went On For An Embarrassingly Long Time, Well Into Our Teens, And I Was The Last One To Give It Up.”
“I always begin a painting with a story in mind, it’s never a process where I just paint and see what happens. For that reason my titles always exist first. Although humor is important to me as a person, I don’t often mean for my work to be humorous. Thematically, subjects like loneliness, isolation, and claustrophobia come up again and again which I find to be quite dark” – Andrea Joyce Heimer
Andrea lives and works in Washington State where she paints almost full time alongside training horses on a 30 acre former dairy farm.