Andrea Brewster

My work is often comprised of otherworldly, organic, abstractions, which reference biological life and natural processes. I am particularly intrigued by the mathematical order underlying growth patterns and the dynamism of “S” curves.

Education

2000 Digital Art and Design Certificate, Center For Electronic Arts, San Francisco, CA

1991 M.F.A., New Genre, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

1984 B.A. Sculpture, Pomona College, Claremont, CA, cum laude

1982 Attended University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Solo Exhibitions

2024 Field Notes, Mercury 20, Oakland, CA

2023 Enchanted Garden, Mercury 20, Oakland, CA

2022 The Fragile Balance That Lies Beneath, Mercury 20, Oakland, CA

2020 Frozen Moment, Mercury 20, Oakland, CA

2020 Cabinet of Curiosity, Mercury 20, Oakland, CA

1995 Fairfield Art Center, Fairfield, CA

1993 San Francisco Art Commission, Market Street Art in Transit Program

1993 The Lab, San Francisco, CA

1992 Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA

1992 Hayward State University, Hayward, CA

1989 Berkeley Arts Commission, Addison Street Site, Berkeley, CA

1988 Monadnock Building, Off-Site Works, San Francisco, CA

Group Exhibitions

2023 Refuses of the Bay, Metal Haus Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2023 Blooming in the Acres of Perhaps, Backroom Gallery, Mercury 20, Oakland, CA

2022 The Winter Solstice Show, Mercury 20, Oakland, CA

2022 The Invisible Veil, Backroom Gallery, Mercury 20, Oakland, CA

2021 XX @ XV: 15th Anniversary Show, Mercury 20, Oakland, CA

2021 Bi-Annual International Fiber Arts X, Sebastopol, CA.

2021 Slender Thread, Backroom Gallery, Mercury 20, Oakland, CA

2020 Re-vision, Mercury 20, Oakland, CA

2020 The Space Between, Headford Lace Project, Headford, Ireland

2017 The Tatting Show, Lacis Museum of Lace and Textiles, Berkeley, CA

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2015 Beauty Virus, Bus Bench Projects, Oakland, CA

2014 Chandra Cerrito Gallery, Oakland, CA

2012 AB25-Collective Memories, Arts Benicia, Benicia, CA

2011 East Bay Open Studios, Oakland, CA

2010 Artist’s Holiday Sale, Oakland, CA

2006 Peninsula Museum of Art, Belmont, CA

2005 Peninsula Museum of Art, Belmont, CA

2002 Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA

2001 Trans America Pyramid, San Francisco, CA

1998 Benicia Public Library, Benicia, CA

1998 Berkeley Public Library, Berkeley, CA

1997 San Francisco Art Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1996 Arts Benicia, Benicia, CA

1995 Trojanowska Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1995 SOMAR Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1994 San Francisco Camerawork, San Francisco, CA

1993 San Francisco State Union Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1992 Bechtel International Center, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA

1992 Zen Center Hospice, San Francisco, CA

1991 New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA

1990 Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Bayfront Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Immanuel Walter McBean Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1990 Art Space Annex, San Francisco, CA

1989 Weir Gallery, Berkeley, CA

1988 Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA

1987 Gallery Sanchez, San Francisco, CA

1986 San Mateo Arts Council, Belmont, CA

Sunnyvale Civic Art Gallery, Sunnyvale, CA

Residencies

1992 Djerassi Foundation, Woodside, CA

Awards

1993 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant, Works on Paper

1993 William and Ester B. Davidowitz Fellowship

1991 Susan Watkins Award

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1986 Best of Show- Mixed Media, Sunnyvale Civic Art Gallery

Teaching

2022 Doily Free Zone, Contemporary Lace Symposium

Publications

2023 Peter Honig, Flowers for Algorithm, Mercury Twenty Gallery

2023 Andrea Brewster | Flowers blooming through AI; Hue and Eye, Online

magazine, https://www.hueandeye.org/andrea-brewster-flowers-blooming-throughai/

2022 Christina Campodonico, Born Out of a Pandemic-Era Obsession With Plants,AI

Generated Flowers Land in Oakland, The San Francisco Standard

2022 Amanda Hayami, Neglected Wonders of Nature, Daily Californian

2021 Fun Size- Tiny Art, Jen Tough Gallery

2021 XV, Mercury 20 Gallery, 15 Years of Art and Community

2020 The Space Between, Exhibition Catalog, Headford, Ireland

2016 Artists Taking Over Bus Benches in Oakland, Alex Mak, Brokeassstuart.com

2000 Class Catalog, Center for Electronic Art, San Francisco, CA

1995 Matt Peiken, A Wall Full of Memories, Fairfield Daily Republic

Who’s Who in America

1994 Who’s Who in American Art

1993 Reena Jana, Transformations, Art Week,

1992 Meredith Tromble, Art at the Zen Center Hospice,

Cid De La Cruz, New Work at the University Art Gallery, Hayward Pioneer

1991 David Bonetti, Alternative Transformations, San Francisco Examiner

Kenneth Baker, Three Woman at New Langton, San Francisco Chronicle

S.F.A.I. Viewbook, San Francisco Art Institute

M.F. A. Catalog, San Francisco Art Institute

1990 Pick of the Week, San Francisco Bay Guardian

1986 Bay Arts Catalog, San Mateo Arts Council, San Mateo, CA

Artists Taking Over Bus Benches in Oakland

Zoom into neglected wonders of nature

 Flowers for Algorithm

Flowers blooming through AI – Hue Eye

“Never Done”

From Pandemic-Era Plant Obsession, AI-Generated Flowers Sprout

 Surface Design Association