Andrea Kowch "Chosen" 30" x 40" acrylic on canvas Please contact Richard J. Demato Fine Arts Gallery regarding availability 631-725-1161, www.rjdgallery.com All images copyright Andrea Kowch. All rights reserved. www.andreakowchillustration.com
Andrea Kowch "No Trespassing" 30" x 24" acrylic on canvas Featured in "Spectrum 15: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art" international art annual Private Collection All images copyright Andrea Kowch. All rights reserved. www.andreakowch.com
Light Keepers " by Andrea Kowch. Acrylic on Canvas. To view more of her work visit http://andreakowch.com/
Malcolm Liepke: Sleeping Baby. Andrea Kowch: The Road She Walks, 20"x16", acrylic on canvas William Morris. "Brer Rabbit" 1882, England. Elly Smallwood. Acrylic sketch.
Magic Realism Painter Andrea Kowch Born in Detroit, Michigan in 1986, Kowch graduated summa cum laude from the College for Creative Studies in 2009 wi
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24" x 30" acrylic on canvas A portrait I just completed for an upcoming competition of a great woman and dear friend of mine, Jeppie Scott-Cook. Jeppie is one of those people who I'm blessed to know, let alone call a friend. It's hard to find a place to start in beginning to describe this lady and the role she plays in the lives of people who know her. A person full of wisdom, and deeply rooted in her faith, there's never a day where Jeppie isn't wearing a smile or blessing people who cross her path. Jeppie and I met a few years ago, and since then, I've been able to listen to her stories and hear her advice on all aspects of life. A single parent in her youth, who raised four children on her own while attending modeling school, Jeppie worked with dreams of making it big in the modeling industry. After completing, she got a call to fly to New York and begin her career, so she packed her bags and was ready to go - only to take one look at her kids and give it all up to stay and raise them. I think this one story alone is enough to give you a bigger picture of Jeppie's character. Being one whose personally gone through some rough patches in past times, I find her fun-loving attitude and strong spirituality to always be deeply healing, because aside from being plain fun to be around, Jeppie's real, she's been there, and like she reminds me, no matter what things come our way, life is a blessing, and it's only a matter of time before the bad will leave, and the good will come pouring in. Truer words couldn't be spoken, and it's a point I think we can all live by. So, with that said, this painting serves as a tribute to one of the most beautiful people I know. Jeppie's love for the outdoors, the cross and scarf she always wears, and her exotic blue eyes are all the unique features I wanted present in this portrait. I also decided to hold back on some of the usual detail I put in my landscapes, choosing, instead, to keep it mostly solid and graphic so that the focus does not shift too far from the figure.
American artists — from the painters of the Hudson River School to the influential Andrew Wyeth — have long depicted this country’s vast landscape as simultaneously a place of lonely desolation and of awe-inspiring grandeur. Following in this tradition, Andrea Kowch creates gorgeous and eerie acrylic paintings of open-skied pastoral landscapes. Inspired by a deep fascination with the natural world, Kowch’s works also tap into a common feeling of uneasiness many of us have toward the American rural – a place that is iconic for its beauty but that is also often associated with tedium, isolation and a clinging to negative aspects of the country's past.
24" x 30" acrylic on canvas A portrait I just completed for an upcoming competition of a great woman and dear friend of mine, Jeppie Scott-Cook. Jeppie is one of those people who I'm blessed to know, let alone call a friend. It's hard to find a place to start in beginning to describe this lady and the role she plays in the lives of people who know her. A person full of wisdom, and deeply rooted in her faith, there's never a day where Jeppie isn't wearing a smile or blessing people who cross her path. Jeppie and I met a few years ago, and since then, I've been able to listen to her stories and hear her advice on all aspects of life. A single parent in her youth, who raised four children on her own while attending modeling school, Jeppie worked with dreams of making it big in the modeling industry. After completing, she got a call to fly to New York and begin her career, so she packed her bags and was ready to go - only to take one look at her kids and give it all up to stay and raise them. I think this one story alone is enough to give you a bigger picture of Jeppie's character. Being one whose personally gone through some rough patches in past times, I find her fun-loving attitude and strong spirituality to always be deeply healing, because aside from being plain fun to be around, Jeppie's real, she's been there, and like she reminds me, no matter what things come our way, life is a blessing, and it's only a matter of time before the bad will leave, and the good will come pouring in. Truer words couldn't be spoken, and it's a point I think we can all live by. So, with that said, this painting serves as a tribute to one of the most beautiful people I know. Jeppie's love for the outdoors, the cross and scarf she always wears, and her exotic blue eyes are all the unique features I wanted present in this portrait. I also decided to hold back on some of the usual detail I put in my landscapes, choosing, instead, to keep it mostly solid and graphic so that the focus does not shift too far from the figure.
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It´s hard to look away from these magical paintings by Andrea Kowch. in a realistic yet mysterious style, Andrea portrays women in rural environments that seem to encompass more history and mystery than a first glimpse would suggest. Originally from Michigan, Andrea Kowch attended the Detroit College for Creative Studies, where she graduated Summe Cum Laude in 2009. […]
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"Night Hill" 36" x 24" acrylic on canvas Featured in American Art Collector Magazine #56 Private Collection All images copyright Andrea Kowch. All rights reserved. www.andreakowch.com
ABOUT THIS ARTWORK SIGNATURE Limited Edition prints are numbered and hand signed by the artist. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Prints are sold matted, with an 8- ply rag board and framed. Add approx. 12" to dimensions for matting and framing. ABOUT ANDREA KOWCH A Michigan native, Andrea Kowch cites the Midwestern landscape as the prime inspiration for her work. Kowch's charming, haunting scenes have been compared to the work of Andrew Wyeth and Alfred Hitchcock. Like Wyeth, Kowch paints in a realist style, using rural settings as metaphors for her female subjects' internal states. And as in Hitchcock's films, the scenes Kowch depicts are not what they seem; mysterious plots and backstories seem to lurk below the surface. Kowch's fictive world is both domestic and wild: rabbits nest in women's laps, quails sit in their hands, moths land on their blouses. Even when her characters are inside, the natural world intrudes. In The Feast, three women gather around a table; wind blows through the wide-open windows, while a rooster sits beside their plates, its beak reaching for their loaf of bread.
The works of this young woman were described by professionals as a powerful voice of sensitive consciousness speaking in the language of folk symbolism. The artist from Michigan, Andrea Kowch, thro…
DISPATCH - Mar 18, 2012 (1:24 p.m.) NEW YORK, NY Andrea Kowch won a top spot during a global artist search sponsored by SCOPE New York. The painter who combines Goth with an Old Masters style was
It´s hard to look away from these magical paintings by Andrea Kowch. in a realistic yet mysterious style, Andrea portrays women in rural environments that seem to encompass more history and mystery than a first glimpse would suggest. Originally from Michigan, Andrea Kowch attended the Detroit College for Creative Studies, where she graduated Summe Cum Laude in 2009. […]
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Andrea Kowch's stirring acrylic paintings combine both earnest reflections on the Western experience and surrealism. Her latest works, primarily focused on female subjects, place that discontent against rustic backdrops. Mixing in elements of nature, she’s able to make unexpected connections.
Artist Bio Andrea Kowch (b. 1986) was born in Detroit, Michigan, where she earned her BFA at the College for Creative Studies. Throughout the past few years, Andrea has won numerous regional, national, and international honors for her art, placing her on the stages of Washington D.C.’s John F. Kennedy Center and New York City’s Carnegie Hall. As a result, she has had work exhibited in places such as Washington D.C.’s Capitol Hill and Corcoran Gallery of Art, New York City’s Diane von Furstenberg Gallery, and Miami’s Margulies Collection, to name a few. As a 2005 award winner and alumnus of the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, Andrea ranks in America’s top 2% of young American talent. Largely self-taught and influenced by the work of American Masters and the Old Masters of the Renaissance, Kowch’s paintings and illustrations are best known for their rich symbolism, mood, and control of medium, leading her art to be described as a “powerful voice emerging, demonstrating a highly sensitive consciousness that informs a culturally laced symbolism.” To date, she has illustrated two books, and has had work featured in CMYK Magazine and Spectrum: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art international art annual, volumes 15 and 16. Many of her works hang in collections across the United States and Canada. She credits life as her muse, where experiences old and new, give her the power to speak visually. Artist Statement The stories and inspiration behind my paintings stem from life’s emotions and experiences, resulting in narrative, allegorical imagery that illustrates the parallels between human experience and the mysteries of the natural world. The lonely, desolate American landscape encompassing the paintings’ subjects serves as an exploration of nature’s sacredness and a reflection of the human soul, symbolizing all things powerful, fragile, and eternal. The real yet dreamlike scenarios I create serve as metaphors for the human condition, all retaining a sense of vagueness because I wish to encourage viewers to form their own conclusions, despite the fact that my main idea will always be present. As a people, we share a common thread, and as active participants in an ever-changing modern world, the purpose of my work is to remind viewers of these places that we feel no longer exist, and to recognize and honor them as a part of our history that is worth preserving. Symbolic explorations of the soul and current events concerning our environment are expressed through the incorporation of animals and other elements of the natural world to transform personal ideas into universal metaphors. http://andreakowch.com/ http://www.escapeintolife.com/artist-watch/andrea-kowch/ http://surrealistisch.blogspot.com/2011/02/andrea-kowch.html
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