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Andie deRoux |
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Andie deRoux was born in Seattle Washington. As the first of three kids, Andie grew up in Madison Park and played in the Washington Park Arboretum when she was a child. Being around creative materials and people at such a young age highly influenced the artist. “I have been around art and clay for as long as I can remember. My mother always had us in her pottery making things with our hands. We held kindergarten in our basement, as it was so large, and we would make things out of paper, plaster and glue. My parents would take me to art openings and dinner parties with their artist friends. I have a lot of memories from when I was younger. I remember seeing James Turrell's inaugural exhibition of the Center On Contemporary Art in 1982 in Seattle, with my mother, when it was across from the Seattle Art Museum”.
The artist attended Washington State University in Pullman, Washington and received her B.F.A. in 1993. Some of her artistic influences and inspiration comes from Marcel Duchamp, Jackson Pollock, Judy Chicago, Louise Bourgeois, Ernst Haeckel, Damien Hirst, Matthew Barney and Andy Warhol.
Andie de Roux’s originals are included in the collections of Redmond City Hall, Seattle University, Safeco Insurance, Seattle Chinese Medical Center, CRS Financial Center, Seattle Center and the Pike Place Market Foundation. The artist has exhibited at the Friesen Gallery, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (CO), Center on Contemporary Art (WA), Bellevue Art Museum (WA), Friesen Gallery (WA), Ace Studios (WA), Gallery 8 (OR), Poncho Art Auction (WA), Consolidated Works Auction (WA) and Wing Luke Art Museum Auction (WA). Her works has also been featured in numerous noted Seattle publications.
When she is not creating fabulous artwork, Andie has an innate love for all things Victorian and gothic, vintage photography and film, Rococo, dreams, abstract expressionism, deconstruction, gothic Lolita and Japanese fashion, gender and culture.
Statement
“For me the greatest thing about working in art, with my materials and techniques, is to be able to say something that has meaning and weight, something that communicates an idea on many different levels. Through the process of making art, I am able to have a deeper discussion with myself and the world. I want to create the truth and have it be an intimate relationship so present that you can feel it, and over time it grows deeper. Art is an interwoven part of my life." |
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