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For years I worked as an artists model, a fully exposed yet anonymous presence. Through related performances, installations, and prints I inhabit the boundary between visibility and invisibility, motion and stillness, immersion and isolation. In the play between absence and presence, the body's "trace" and replication, there is a constant struggle between the desire to be autonomous and the desire to merge. Collapsing the spaces between figure and ground, reality and illusion, body art and figuration, I aim not to deny dualities, but explore the subtle fabric that shifts between them.
My own body acts as artist, model, and medium. I print with hair cuttings and rubber castings made from parts of my body onto paper and my own skin. Entire spaces are created from a small fragment: entered, reflected upon, transformed. I wish to defy or redefine the limitations of my corporeal body, to have a dialogue with my own image, one that expresses the anxieties and pleasures of the contemporary body. I seek the place where the simulated, the metaphorical, and the corporeal body converge.
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Andrea Cote is a multi-disciplinary visual artist living in New York. She has exhibited her work both nationally and internationally at venues including The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Islip Art Museum, Rotunda Gallery, Delaware Art Museum, Abrons Arts Center, Jack the Pelican Gallery, The Rochester Contemporary, Maryland Art Place, Art Center South Florida, The Print Center, The Moore Gallery, and 911 Media Arts Center. Her performances have been presented at The Philadelphia Fringe Festival, The Neuberger Museum, Chashama, Scope Art Fairs, The Dumbo Arts Festival, and Photo Buenos Aires . Her work has been reviewed in The New York Times, The Miami Herald, The New Times, Newsday, Artinfo.com, and Wynwood Art Magazine. Andrea received a video residency from the BCAT/ Rotunda Gallery and a Fellowship from the Center For Emerging Artists. She is represented by PanAmerican Art Projects in Miami, Florida.
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2003
MFA Purchase College, State University of New York
1994
BFA Florida International University, Miami, FL |
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| REPRESENTATION |
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| PanAmerican Art Projects, Miami, FL |
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| SOLO EXHIBITS |
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SOLO PROJECTS
2007
"Cut," Installation and Exhibition, PanAmerican Projects, Miami, FL
"BodySite," Performance, Art Sites, Riverhead, NY; Buenos Aires, Argentina
2006
"BodySite," Installation and Performance, ScopeMiami, Miami, FL; ScopeHamptons , East Hampton, NY; Dumbo Art Under the Bridge Festival, Brooklyn, NY
"BODY/SITE," Installation and Performance, Chashama Art Space, New York, NY
"Window Dressing,"Installation and Performance, Art Center South Florida, Miami, FL
"BodyChamber," Installation and Performance, Cave Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2005
"Bodies on Paper,"Exhibition, Henry Street Settlement Abrons Art Center Charles E. Culpepper Gallery, New York, NY
2004
"Hairbody," Performance, The Print Center, Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Philadelphia, PA; Waxworks, Williamsburg Art Nexus, Brooklyn, NY; Domestic Arts, Brooklyn, NY; Highwire Gallery, PA (video screening)
"Bodyspace II," Drawing Installation and Screening, Studio Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2003
"Bodyspace," MFA Thesis Exhibition, Maass Gallery, Purchase, NY
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2008
"Works on Paper," Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
"I Dream of Genomes," Islip Art Museum, Islip, NY,
"Natural Selection," Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD
"Mutable Biologies," Two Person Show, Bebe Beloniel Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Group Show, Carol Jazzar Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
2007
"Fever Pitch," Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
"Absence/Excess/Loss," Rochester Contemporary, Rochester, NY
"Presence," The Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies, New York, NY
"Bodies of/at Work," Nurture Art, Brooklyn, NY
"For the Fun of It," The Elizabeth Foundation, New York, NY
"23 Degrees," Icebox Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
"Yo! Contemporary Self-Portraits," Solar Gallery, East Hampton, NY
"Buenos Aires Photo," Buenos Aires, Argentina
2006
"RADIANT," The Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
"Inner Limits," Henry Street Abrons Art Center, NY, NY
"Stature," Sculptural Performance, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
"A History of Women's Art," Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, NY
"Perceptions," Pochron Studios, Brooklyn, NY
"Introduction '06," Moore Gallery of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA
"BooBies," Falling Cow Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2005
"Caspar David Seance,"Jack the Pelican Presents, Brooklyn, NY
"Random Occurences: Deconstructing Images, Icons, and Identity," Part of "Project Diversity", Skylight Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
"Transitional Space," Site-Specific Collaborative Performance," The Bushwick Art Project" Brooklyn, NY
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"Andrea Cote: Her Art's Alive," Pine Crest Alumni Magazine, Featured Profile, Toni Marshall, Fall 2007 (Photos)
"Andrea Cote: Reaching Beyond," Wynwood Art Magazine, Feature Article, Irina Leyva-Perez, Nov 2007 (Cover Image)
"Conversation with Andrea Cote," GalleryDiet.com, Sarah Webb, Issue#6, Nov 2007 (Photos)
"Facades of Fear," Miami New Times, Carlos Suarez de Jesus, Nov 8, 2007
"Artist Becomes Part of the Art," The Southampton Press, Featured Profile, Pat Rogers, Oct 25, 2007 (Photo)
"Feminist Debate? Turning up the Volume," Newsday Long Island, Aileen Jacobson, Oct 21, 2007 (Photo)
"Critic's Pick," The Miami Herald, Fabiola Santiago, Oct 19, 2007
"Contemporary Self-Portraits at Solar," Dan's Papers, Marion Wolberg Weiss, Oct 12, 2007
"Shows that don't End as Summer Fades," The New York Times, Benjamin Gennochio, Sept 30, 2007 "Art Favorites: Take a Field Trip," The East Hampton Star, Janet Goleas, Aug 31, 2007
"Visual Arts Review: Meditations on Mourning," Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, Shirley Dawson, May 6, 2007
"Tape, Hair, Salt all Part of Unique Art Exhibit," The News Journal, Delaware Online, Christopher Yasiejko, Jan 28, 2007
"Art Basel Miami: Scope Takes Things Outside," ArtInfo.com, News and Features, Margery Gordon, Dec 9, 2006 (Photo)
"Fair Report," ArtInfo.com, News and Features, William Hanley, July 22, 2006
"Shortlist," Village Voice, June 28-July 4, 2006
"Artist Uses Her Own Body in Artwork," Sobereal.com, Feature, News, Feb 11, 2006 (Photo)
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Curatorial Projects and Writing
2008
Group Show, Carol Jazzar Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
"Identifiable Gestures," NY Arts Magazine, Jan 2008
2007
"Posing" Abrons Art Center, New York, NY, Co-curated with Joelle Jensen
"Conversation with Midori Harima," GalleryDiet.com, Issue#3, May 2007 |
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