Westside Gallery
Franz Flemming Str. 9. Leipzig, Germany
This solo exhibition, which was also my final exam from the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig, is made up of visual explorations of human [with, and, or] in environment. These works are a selection from 2018 until 2020 that represent my evolution and experimentation with the subject through different mediums including: printmaking, quilting, painting, photography, sculpture, welding, ceramics, and video works.
Symbols fade in and out of each work throughout the gallery space, connecting and continuing dialogue between each piece such as: Monstera Deliciosa Plants, Google Earth screenshots, water, and interior architecture.
The title "Palms And Our Hands" references the typical phrase regarding ownership and control "I had it in the palm of my hand". The word-play functions to point to the palm as a member of the human body as well as a member of a plant body. It is my own poetic expression to suggest the complexity between plant, human, and land bodies that encompass the themes and narratives within the exhibition.
Images shot by: Gustav Franz
curated by Yara Saleh & Manuel Schneiderwind
group exhibition featuring: Manuel Schneidewind, Andrea Garcia Vasquez, Karolina Schneider, Christian Bär, Lena Flohrschütz,und Vera König
AO Kunsthalle, Nov 2018 -Jan 2019
When repetition isn’t simply the equivalence, the equality of quantity or quality, it is then a consequence of thinking. It is the will, the idea, the force that motivates a person to initiate and act. It is the believe, the desire, the past coming to the present. It is the representation of mind processes. The movement in which Ideas, memories materialize in the physical realm. Gathering works of six artists: Manuel Schneidewind, Andrea Garcia Vasquez, Karoline Schneider, Christian Bär, Lena Teresa Flohrschütz & Vera König. Immersing into their spheres, looking at their mind’s animation, getting to know their techniques of art making. “Facing Repetition” highlights the mental process and the physical actions to make art.
solo exhibition
392Rmeil393
Beirut, Lebanon
Sept, 2017
This collection of unique, hand-embroidered tapestries and sculptures reflect the artist’s exploration of “place” and what humans do to “place” or experience within “place”.
“TOPOPHILIA” incorporates two dimensional quilts with alluring hand-woven and hand-embroidered details. These quilts playfully venture the boundary between the traditional and the absurd within fiber art techniques. The artist uses abstract sculptures juxtaposed with analytical maps and graphs made of fabric, rope, and thread to render her time spent there. Viewers will also be intrigued by the interactive installation of a series titled, “Psychogeographic Experiments”; a collection of sewn textile maps based on her daily movements and memories of travel. Through these works, the artist tests the ways landscape, information, and memory can be poetically translated into a story between man and nature.
Two Artist Exhibition @ GapGap
Dani Minuskin & Andrea Garcia
Gemeindeamtstr 13. Leipzig
November 10-30, 2018
For More Works from Dani Minuskin, please visit www.daniminuskin.com
Molting rock crumbles from the crust of her carcass. Steam and smoke pump at inconsistent, beating breaths. Black oxygen inhaled into the grey heart of a black rock. The endless pushing of the winds eroded her parts into golden flakes. Whispering, tumbling, drying in the open. As the breeze weaves itself between her hands, she sings to the water, and the soil, and the cycle. Her hands brush the fields in between yesterday and a time we fear to never experience. For feeling the experience would mean it would at some point end… at some point die. She wishes to stay there- swinging between the in-betweens. Therefore, she bears the budges which bend her in any of many directions, for however long, until the blows bring her back to a place she barely belongs.
Dance Doyle & Andrea Garcia Vasquez
March 17 -May 6, 2018
Opening Reception:
Saturday, March 17th, 2018, 6-9pm
Closing Reception: Sunday, May 6th 3-6pm
The Compound Gallery is pleased to present Fiber Fiction, a two person exhibition featuring the woven and fiber works of Dance Doyle and Andrea Garcia Vasquez. Fiber Fiction embarks on a fascinating journey of storytelling through textiles. Each piece is alive with vibrant, layered, chronicles of daily living.
Dance Doyle creates large-scale urban contemporary tapestries which showcase the art of storytelling. Dance, who is primarily self-taught, has developed her own techniques – resulting in a distinctive style that communicates what she sees in her urban world. Her work depicts surreal narratives within a mystical world that manifests out of her every day life.
The collection of fiber works from Andrea Garcia Vasquez in this exhibition reflect a phase in her artistic career of pure technical practice and playful experimentation. Inspired by the traditional means of weaving, tapestry, and quilting to pass down history, the artist applies these methods to present her own narratives dealing with popular trends, environmental awareness, love, and placement. Referencing nature and the role human plays to it- often with a slight sense of humor. She composes unique tapestries which allow the viewer to contemplate the symbolism, the disfunction, the boundary of kitsch, memory, and the fiber art process.
