MIAMI, FL.- Etra Fine Art Gallery presents “The Crossroad” a solo exhibition of new works by Andrea Dasha Reich. “The Crossroad” will run from March 8, 2014 – April 8, 2014 with an opening reception Saturday, March 8, from 7:00 – 10:00 p.m.
In this exhibition, Reich will showcase her new, sculptural artworks alongside the multilayered and dimensional resin paintings for which she is well known. The new and alluring abstract sculptures are a rich variety of bold, folded forms with smooth creases and appealing lines, and sinuous vessels that combine elegant design with vivid color spectrums. These sensual pieces play with shadow and light, and invite us to imagine organic forms from other fantastical worlds. Through this exhibit, the artist shows a new language of expression using the same material and elements as her developed and mature artworks. It is a crossroad, a breakthrough, a novel creation built on the same foundation that has established her as the renowned, contemporary abstract artist that she is.
Andrea Dasha Reich will be present at the opening reception Saturday, March 8, from 7:00 – 10:00 p.m. Gallery hours are Monday - Saturday 10:00 – 6:00, and by appointment.
Andrea Dasha Reich was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in a creative and progressive enviroment. Her Father was a lawyer and political activist and her mother was a graduate of the Academy of Applied Arts in Prague. She was raised in a Bauhaus designed apartment building filled with inspiring original artwork of that era. When her family relocated to Israel in 1960, Dasha studied art and design at the Bezalel Academy of Art in Jerusalem, under renowned modernist painters Yossi Stern and Moshe Rosenthalis.
After emigrating to the United States in 1966, Dasha enjoyed successful careers working in fashion design, accessories, home furnishing, textile design, tableware, and comercial space design. Her abstract paintings reflect her travels to Eastern and Western Europe, the Orient, the Middle East, and Mexico, and she draws inspiration from various aspects of our inter-connected, global culture. In addition she explains, "I find my inspiration from the original source of all textures, patterns, colors and contrasts - the natural world". Believing that colors exerts continual feedback to the various layers of one's consciousness, Dasha uses it profusely and excitingly.
Dasha's luminously complex paintings are about the expressiveness of color. She playfully attacks her work with slashes, strokes, stripes, washes and drizzles of concentrated pigments. She then creates the illusion of glass by floating pigments, stains and metallic foils between deep, revealing layers of epoxy resin. You can see river currents, spiraling galaxies, river stones and flora silhouettes in her vibrant montages.
