Pat Andrea Biography
La Haya, Holland 1942
Renowned painter, graphic artist and Dutch illustrator. The work of Pat Andrea captures and elaborates the horrors and phobias of war between the sexes.
An ironic eroticism and restrained violence are the themes of her paintings and drawings that criticism has related to Balthus and Bacon.
From a formal point of view you can combine the lessons of the classics with a grotesque expressionism, creating direct images with great intensity.
She was educated as a painter and illustrator on her own. Currently she lives and works in La Haya, Paris, and Buenos Aires.
In 1967 she obtained the Jacob Maris award for drawing.
Selected Exhibitions:
1975
Gemeente-museum, Arnhem
1978 - Palais des Beaux-Arts, Bruselas
1980 - Galerie Elisabeth Franck, Knokke-le-Zoute - Galerie Jurka, Amsterdam
1986 - Salon d'Art, Bruselas
1992 - Centro de Arte Contemporaneo, Cordoba, Argentina - Fundacion San Telmo, Buenos Aires
1993 - Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam
1994 - Institut Neerlandais, Paris 1998 - Galeria Sen, Madrid