ABOUT THE ARTIST

Maude Andrade was born in Memphis, Tennessee but moved with her family to New Mexico at an early age. She never imagined herself an artist though her mother is a quilter and known in her field. She grew up in a creatve atmosphere and learned about art through an authentic experience of it. It was ambient in her home.

A weaving class in her senior year of college transformed her life. As a student of biology, she had enjoyed looking at plants through microscopes, as reductive and abstract a visual experience as one can have. But weaving awoke something in her. “It was electrifying, to see I was building cloth: I felt connected with the ages, with something timeless.” Upon returning to New Mexico, she began her life as a designer and artist in earnest.

Fiber was her first medium. She dyed her yarns, wove fabrics, hand screened them, painted the warps, discharge dying and hand painting. While she continues to work as a fiber artist, perhaps it was a just a matter of time before she turned to oil and acrylic paints.  

ABOUT THE WORK

“I work with different media, utilizing their differences to create a language or voice for myself. In a similar way that people say they have a different personality when they speak Italian rather than English, my painting personality is different when I use acrylics or oil paints. The geometric symbols and organic forms in this series are my personal graffiti or abstracted calligraphy. They map a story of place, time or psychological terrain which may be real or imagined, or both simultaneously, giving them a meditative but mysterious tension.”

PUBLICATIONS

2008 American Art Collector, Alcove Books
2008 Guild Sourcebook of Residential Art 6
2007 American Art Collector, Central States, Vol 3, Book 2, Alcove Books

EDUCATION

1987 University of New Hampshire, BS Botany/Chemistry