Andrea Dolter works across textile and printmaking media, finding new ways to explore fiber though printmaking and print through traditional textile practices. Raised with a passion for drawing and creating instilled in her by her parents and taught to sew by the women in her family as a child in Iowa, Andrea connects to a history that is both personal and shared through the traditions of craft with the materials and processes she uses.

Receiving her BFA from Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design in 2014, Andrea primarily focused on printmaking and drawing. She was reintroduced to working with textiles when she studied abroad in Warsaw, Poland at Akademia Sztuk Pięknych, influencing her printmaking practices ever since.

Andrea creates textiles, prints those textiles onto paper, layers and quilts the paper, cuts it apart, quilts it again and ongoing. Through intuitive and tactile handling, the work is in a constant state of construction and deconstruction of images, patterns, textures, and spaces that results in an awareness of time and sensitivity to materials. Hatch-marks become weavings, printed fibers become landscape, and layering of translucent materials becomes atmosphere. Stitching together these pieces creates an illusion of structure and each reconstruction of the pieces holds onto memories of its former self. The work is a moment in time frozen- disintegrating as it grows and unveiling the impermanence and imperfections of all things physical.

Andrea currently lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and works from her studio at Var Gallery & Studios.

2023

Forthcoming: “30x30x30” 8th Annual - Var Gallery, Milwaukee, WI

2022

Ongoing: “Collective Exhibition” - Var Gallery, Milwaukee, WI

2020

“30x30x30” 6th Annual - Var Gallery, Milwaukee, WI

“Past Life, Present” Solo Exhibition - ReCreative, Denver, CO

2020

“30x30x30” 6th Annual - Var Gallery, Milwaukee, WI

“Past Life, Present” Solo Exhibition - ReCreative, Denver, CO

2019

“Déjà Vu” - DBLSPC, Denver, CO

“Figure Exhibition” - Var Gallery, Milwaukee, WI

2018

“Var 5th Anniversary” Collective Exhibition - Var Gallery, Milwaukee, WI

“Au Lait“ - Metropolis, Denver, CO

2015

"We're Still Here" Art and Fiction Show - Monk's, Dubuque, IA

“30x30x30” - Var Gallery, Milwaukee, WI

2014

“Grand Opening” - Var Gallery, Milwaukee, WI

“Ghost Show V” - Borderline, Milwaukee, WI

University Towers Selected Group Show - University Club Towers, Milwaukee, WI

Juried Senior Exhibition - Layton Gallery, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee, WI

“Hold Still” Senior Thesis Exhibition - Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee, WI

“Winter Carnival” Group Performance - Lynden Sculpture Garden, Milwaukee WI

2013

“Currents, Tendencies” - Raw Space Gallery, Milwaukee, WI

“Annual Exhibition” - Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Poland

“Arts Colony and Global Village” - Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee, WI

2011

“Spontaneous” - Delafield Art Center, Delafield, WI

Lectures:

2012 Contemporary Printmaking Panel Discussion - Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee, WI

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