Serene Disturbance, Acrylic on Canvas, 20 in. x 20 in.
SERENE DISTURBANCE
Serene Disturbance uses abstract techniques to depict the complicated visual of an unsettling face. The intent is for the audience to decipher what they feel when looking at this image.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Ashley Andrade’s creative work focuses on acrylic painting. Her paintings merge surrealist images of faces with objects to explore the relationship between humans and the tangible things they create. She fixates on looking at people's faces, whether it's a familiar face or a stranger and paints both from life and photographs. She prefers working with the face rather than the entire human body because it reminds her of the uniqueness each individual carries. The body can also be unique in physique or mutations, but every face has distinguishable features that can't compare to others. She wants to extensively examine the individual details on others’ faces and translate them into a type of figurative art. These artworks simultaneously use realism alongside abstraction to convey a human-like presence without showing genuine reality.