ANDREA BROYLES

My work focuses on the journey from the dark to the light. It is the grey area before the light, where creativity and awareness are experienced. When one emerges, one’s new raw self is exposed after being concealed. Emergence is the process of coming into being - of manifesting oneself to importance or prominence. This is the thread that runs through everything that I create whether it is painting, drawing, or sculpture. Profound or mundane is equally important to me in the creative process.

Andrea Broyles (born 1963, Toronto, Canada) is a contemporary figurative painter and sculptor whose work explores and is based on the human condition specifically emotionality, mortality, and conflict. Using the figure, she creates pieces that are filled with emotion and challenge the eye and the intellect. Paintings and sculptures are worked in a variety of media such as clay, plaster, and oil on board, offer ambiguous, enigmatic narratives drawn from her life that resonate with the viewer on many levels. She received her BA and BFA in art from the University of Texas at Austin in 1988. She has worked as a waitress, framer, limo driver, fashion model, rancher, rodeo rider, musician, art teacher, language arts tutor to non-English speaking children, and is a mother to three children. Her work has been shown at galleries throughout the United States for almost 30 years. A character based on her was featured in the movie Cast Away with Tom Hanks, which also used one of her monoprints, "Wings," as a signature image. In 2007 a retrospective of her work, A Gathering, was published as well as her first book of poems, A Rough Night in Paradise was published in 2019. Broyles's paintings and sculptures are in many private collections in the U.S and abroad. Broyles currently lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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