Andrea Amelung

Andrea Amelung’s mixed media work shivers with color. Her pieces are loaded with texture giving it a pulsing, sculptural quality. Amelung is an abstract expressionist, but her sense of shape and balance, and her tendency to saturate the canvas in a single, vivid color, makes her work optimistic and unique. What gives her work an exciting edge is her fascination with process and experimentation. Amelung’s love affair with technique and materials makes her oeuvre quite varied; her encaustic paintings break in peaks and valleys over the canvas, while in another piece she mixes raw pigments with a unique intermingling of painting media such as modeling plastic, sand, ash and marble dust to create a shower of texture that also carries the mystery of her extensive travels abroad.