Feature Artist
We are excited to bring you September Feature Artist Andrea Hooge's 'Tiny Rooms', a whimsical collection of scratchboard shadowboxes. Join us for the opening reception Friday Sept. 6th, 7-9pm. Meet the artist!
Tiny Rooms is the beginning of a direction of new work that explores the idea of compartmentalizing thoughts, ideas, information, and experiences. It's as if to say that inside of our minds are thousands of tiny little rooms where a thought exists to hide away forever or to focus on and to explore further. All of the rooms exist at once and are ever-expanding, with each one in some sort of rotation or storage at any point in time. Tiny Rooms is a collection of daydreaming little characters inside of their own little rooms. We don't know what they're thinking about, but they are deep inside of their own imaginations.
Artist Bio
Andrea Hooge is an artist based out of Vancouver, BC, Canada. She has been featured in five solo shows in Vancouver, and has been showing her work for many years in group shows and as part of an artist collective. She earned her BA from the University of the Fraser Valley, where she majored in Psychology and minored in Visual Arts.
Andrea focuses mainly on figurative oil paintings and scratchboards, and while many of her works are on wood or hardboard panels, she also creates unique cutouts that move away from conventional shapes. Andrea takes great delight in creating and using personal symbols and objects that draw inspiration from vintage children’s books and toys, while exploring her childhood interpretations of religion, heritage, and family traditions to influence her work. Andrea seeks to draw in an audience by both captivating and disturbing them with vaguely familiar storybook scenes. She places an emphasis on references to eggs by visualizing egg-related idioms, while also playing around with the idea of hiding “easter eggs,” or inside jokes, surprises, and hidden meanings to create continuity across different mediums and themes within her current, past, and future works.