Andrea Pramuk
Andrea Pramuk, a painter based in Austin, Texas, creates organic, drawing-based abstractions. Her pictures may seem familiar at first glance, but on closer inspection, they are not things or places that exist, but rather lyrical subjects whose dialogue originates out of line, shape, color and light. Andrea is interested in and studies many branches of science, philosophy, and metaphysics. For inspiration, she looks to ephemeral subject matter that might produce images reminiscent of stone, sea, sky, and botanical forms – all traditional painting subjects.
Andrea uses acrylic paint and dye-based pigments within an evaporative system that includes a carefully mixed color palette, paint pouring and drawing techniques, working both flat and at the easel. Pouring paint for Andrea is like building sediment layers in stone, creating wave patterns in sand and bringing about tree rings born out of drying paint puddles shrinking one ring at a time. Her process and subject matter, therefore, are both temporal and symbiotic, a universal (asemic) language. Poetry comes into play with her choice of titles, often borrowed from music lyrics, poetry or books, while also folding in themes from current events.
Andrea describes her pictures as both intimate and expansive, one page in life’s journal. Things on her mind today include the balancing act between the terms of formal abstraction and the issues related to the fragility of existence and the universe we inhabit.
Originally from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Andrea currently lives in Southwest Austin. She converted a solarium into a workspace that she shares with her musical partner John Orr Franklin and calico studio assistant M. Grace.
