Michelle Andrade Available Works
Like Me Ink on Paper 46 x 23 inches 2013
What A Weirdo 2014 Don t Make This About You 2014
She Lives In Fear 2014 We Are Moving Too Fast 2014
Give Her Some Space 2014 Vodka Forever 2013
Not Everyone Is Great 2014 I Don t Belong Here 2012
Everything Is Too Much Ink on Graph Paper 22 x 17 inches 2012 Please Leave Ink on Graph Paper 22 x 17 inches 2012 $2,800
How Long Have You Been Crazy? Ink on Graph Paper 22 x 17 inches 2012
I Was Picky Ten Years Ago Ink on paper 17 x 11 2010 Do I Look Like a Troll? Ink on paper 17 x 11 2010
Thanks And Sorry Archival Pigment Print Edition of 50 12 x 11 inches Unframed 2012
Culture Monster ALL THE ARTS, ALL THE TIME Review: Michelle Andrade s notes to self at Charlie James By Leah Ollman June 21, 2012 Are there scholarships to rehab? Michelle Andrade endearingly asks in Surrender Michelle, the most absorbing and among the largest of her drawings at Charlie James. Andrade nearly smothers the 31-by-50-inch sheet of paper with inked ramblings, doodles, intricate patterns, propositions, reflections and self-doubts: I have the best taste in music...i am still filled with Catholic guilt...my mind races... Don t get too close...want to come to the Verdugo tonight? Andrade s drawings meld teenage exuberance with adult anxiety. The combination works, for the most part, but better in the torrential stream of consciousness that is Surrender Michelle than in the single-phrase, notebook-page drawings whose zippy palette and bubble letters nod nostalgically to the 70s. The statements in the smaller pieces express preoccupation -- delivered with the inflection of a middle schooler -- with how much one likes and is liked. They issue slightly snarky prods, as well as sobering references to medical travails: Now Comes the Biopsy; Hospital Waiting Rooms Should Have a Bar. Many of the drawings are dated, and some even include the time of day, a telling indicator of the short shelf life of some of the sentiments declared. Every entry in Andrade s decorated diary is set within an ebullience of spirals, arrows, flowers and other designs, whatever the mood reflected in the words themselves. This generates a little bit of friction, an uneasy conflation of private and public that might render these psychic spills cathartic for more than just the L.A.-based artist herself. Detail of Michelle Andrade s ink drawing, Surrender Michelle. (Charlie James Gallery / June 21, 2012) Charlie James Gallery, 969 Chung King Road, (213) 687-0844, through July 14. Closed Sunday through Tuesday. www.cjamesgallery.com
Michelle Andrade Born 1972 in Encino, CA Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA EDUCATION: GRADUATE: Otis College of Art and Design, 2005-2007: MFA UNDERGRADUATE: The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2003-2005: BFA SOLO & GROUP EXHIBITIONS: 2013 Dallas Art Fair, Charlie James Gallery, Dallas, TX 2012 Miami Project Art Fair, Charlie James Gallery, Miami, FL Art Aspen, Charlie James Gallery, Aspen, CO Self- Titled, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo) 2011 Pulse Contemporary Art Fair, Charlie James Gallery, Miami, FL Texas Contemporary Art Fair, Charlie James Gallery, Houston, TX Pulse Contemporary Art Fair, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Chain Letter, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Incognito, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA 2010 Shangrila, Joshua Tree, CA Sensate Rainbow, Project Room G3, San Pedro, CA 2009 Station Must Go, Raw Materials, Los Angeles, CA Creative Arts Group Faculty Show, Jameson Gallery, Sierra Madre, CA Flying White Cube, SF1 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Kaleidoscopic, Phantom Galleries, Long Beach, CA 2008 STATION group show, El Nopal Press, Los Angeles, CA A Sight for Sour Eyes, STATION Studios, Los Angeles, CA 2007 Group Show, Short House, Los Angeles, CA Otis MFA Thesis Show, Bolsky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Remove, Bolsky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Resolutions, Bolsky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2006 doubletake, Gallery Duo, Los Angeles, CA Chain Letter, High Energy Constructs, Los Angeles, CA Group Show, 6147, Los Angeles, CA 2005 SAIC BFA Show, Gallery 2, Chicago, IL Group Show, Clark Gallery, Chicago, IL Group Show, Gallery 2, Chicago, IL 2004 Stray Show, Chicago, IL (through General Store, Milwaukee, WI) Juried Exhibition, the Gallery, Pasadena City College, Pasadena, CA Group Show, the Gallery, Pasadena City College, Pasadena, CA