glint
oil, acrylic, and flashe on linen, 50" x 40", 2017
untitled 3
acrylic and flashe on linen, 22" x 18", 2017
half-light
oil, acrylic, and flashe on linen, 56" x 46", 2017
wave
flashe on linen, 18" x 15", 2016
untitled 6
acrylic and flashe on linen, 22" x 18", 2017
maybe the moon
acrylic and flashe on paper, 30" x 21", 2017
smoke
acrylic and flashe on linen, 50" x 40", 2017
untitled 4
acrylic and flashe on linen, 22" x 18", 2017
untitled 5
acrylic and flashe on linen, 22" x 18", 2017
Artist Biography
Andrea Joki is an American painter who currently lives and works in Cleveland, OH and Los Angeles, CA. She received her BS from the University of Wisconsin, and an MFA from Kent State University. Joki’s kinetic language embraces gesture and geometry of perception and sensory experiences of the places she visits and people she meets. Her work is informed through the dislocations of travel, contemplations of the natural world, and humanity’s place in it.
Joki’s work has been exhibited in the Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, San Francisco, CA, Los Angeles, CA, Baltimore, MD, Scottsdale, AZ, and Berlin, Germany. She is the recipient of the Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award and held artist residencies at the Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA, Eastside International Art Space, Los Angeles, CA, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, and Ohio Arts Council Artist Residency, Dresden, Germany. Joki’s work has been published and reviewed by New American Paintings, Angle Magazine, Dialogue Magazine, the Akron Beacon Journal, and the Cleveland Museum of Art to name a few. Her work can be found in public and private collections around the world including Art NEO Museum, Cleveland Artists Association, Hahn Loeser & Parks LLP, The Cleveland Clinic, Progressive Insurance, and Ritz Carlton.
Artist Statement
“Through the process of painting, I explore many ideas – modernism, digital revolution, science, mysticism, natural phenomena, and human psychology. Engaging both expressionist and hardedge styles, I enjoy the friction in the aesthetic mash-up and find beauty in the containment of the language on woven linen and well-crafted stretchers. As an abstract painter, I look to art history and research from travel, explorations of the city, hikes in the wilderness and connections with people made along the way. I like to think of my paintings as perfect failures. I’m interested in the disruptions of lines and the breakdown of expressionist fields with linear and geometric motifs. I enjoy the friction in the aesthetic mash-up of styles and find beauty in the containment of the language on woven linen and perfectly crafted stretchers.”
