Andrea Ondish

Artist Statement

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My art is tactile and intuitive.

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My visual art influences reference artists such as Jean Michel Basquiat, Jaune Quick-to see-Smith, Laylah Ali, William Wiley, Emmi Whitehorse, Katherine Chang Liu, Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. I also follow contemporary German artists creating painted rusticated surface imagery.

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I paint, sculpt, make prints and work in series. My past series reflect modernist and Imagist styles. My current series is influenced from Dada and Neo-Dada imagery.

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My current untitled series reflects randomness, mark making and textured layers of color and gesture. I employ an intuitive, painterly, free-drawn style on a collage and surface-textured base. Imagery is layered over a time period to indicate the passage of time. I enjoy the ambiguous, layered random marks that especially relate to Rauschenbergs’, mixed media combine assemblages of the 1950s and 1960s. I personally connect with randomness in artmaking and life.

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I hope to continue with my present series until a new experience takes me into a different direction.