Andrea Gaydos Landau: Never Wanted Nothing
June 6 – June 29, 2014
Opening Reception: Friday, June 6, 2014, 6-10pm

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PHILADELPHIA, PA-

Never Wanted Nothing brings together new works made from fragments, culminating in processes of hand-cut wall drawings and collage by Andrea Gaydos Landau. Meditating on the idea of the double negative, the collages are composed of discarded shells of negative space and shadows. Here emerges a rejected space where the subject turns into an emptiness. These are images or emotive voids that displace intimacy in exchange for objective contemplation.

Other works in the gallery sit suspended between positive and negative, finite and infinite. They are arrangements of fragility made up of marks of logic, emotion and longing. Whether torn apart or carefully cut, these compositions reference ephemeral actions - like a dissolving, irrevocable loss. All of which attempt to grasp an understanding of vast uncertainty.

Landau’s work embodies both architectonic and organic, decorative and chaotic qualities. She sees the potential of ornament and pattern as conceptual and structural. Landau looks to the natural world for inspiration and strategies to build her work. Through her work she questions ordering and impermanence, which in turn, examine the kinship between both presence and absence. Landau represents these ideas in an intuitive manner, filtered by geometry, the history of the decorative arts, and the natural sciences.

Landau’s work has been exhibited internationally at Korea National University of the Arts in Seoul, South Korea and nationally at Daimler Financial Corporate Headquarters in MI, and Rowan University in NJ. Her work also appeared in “Hothouse”, an exhibition representing the field of Fiber from the past 37 years at Cranbrook Art Museum in Michigan. Locally, Landau has shown at the Philadelphia Art Alliance, Goldie Paley Gallery, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, Cheltenham Center for the Arts, Center for Emerging Visual Artist, and was selected for Philagrafika’s Invitational Portfolio.

Currently, Andrea Gaydos Landau works at The Fabric Workshop and Museum and at Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia , PA. She is a shiny new member of Tiger Strikes Asteroid gallery.