Andrea Cermanksi
Santa Fe, NM
Arroyo
Burnt Tumbleweed, Sandstone & Polymer on Wood
18” x 18” x 1.5” diameter
2023
$975
About
Andrea Cermanski lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She has been painting with acrylic, encaustic and natural pigments for almost three decades and has a Bachelor’s in Art History and a Masters in Art Education. Cermanski has exhibited her work in five solo and nine group shows, including Feminists Under Forty, which was curated by Judy Chicago. Cermanski is featured in E. Ashley Rooney’s Contemporary Art of the Southwest (2014), and has numerous collectors around the country, including two corporate collections. She is currently represented by galleries in New Orleans and San Jose del Cabo, Mexico, and also sells her work at her downtown Santa Fe gallery and studio, one block from the legendary Canyon Road.
Artist Statement
My work is inspired by the intricacies of our natural world. Extracting my palette from nature, my work embodies the delicate interplay of light and color, texture and form. While working, I intuitively synthesize memories of the land, sky and water, allowing something new to emerge–a metamorphosis. My current work explores my relationship with the tumbleweed. An invasive plant with a storied, symbolic history which romanticizes the American West, tumbleweeds overtake everything - the land, the yard, the imagination - during the windy Spring months in New Mexico.
“Tumbleweed Black” is the novel paint I create following a neighborhood tumbleweed-burning party; it integrates the charred remnants with acrylic medium and water. With this dramatic jet-black paint, I am redefining the tumbleweed’s narrative from romantic to realistic. These paintings celebrate the New Mexico landscape: the invasive versus the native, tumbling versus stability, and the ancient versus the new.
Portfolio
Representation
Gallery Arlo
New Orleans, LA
Art from Andrea Cermanksi in other TAAC exhibitions
This is Andrea Cermanksi's first TAAC exhibition