ANDREA MAGUIRE (Canada)
Andrea Maguire lives and works in Toronto where she has both taught and holds an active studio practice. She has exhibited extensively in both Canada and Internationally including exhibitions in New York, Chicago and Dublin. In 2004 she was invited to Japan to exhibit her installation, Time, Space, Thought, and another installation, In the Presence of Absence was exhibited at the Toronto Art Expo. She received her MFA from Norwich University and her work is included in the collections of Ernst & Young, Dieckmann & Assoc. (Chicago), Magna International, Nesbitt-Burns and Ontario Hydro. A recent solo exhibition called Between Creation and Chaos was held at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery at the University of Toronto.
“I am interested in ‘process’ in my work. It is in the application of various layers and the subsequent practice of scraping away that I come to the realization of my vision which is one in which I ‘find’ the elemental image. These layers provide the metaphoric archaeological or psychic strata which highlight the human condition at its most essential level, its essence.” |
