Artist Statement

Andrea Bartine Caldarise is a contemporary landscape painter drawing inspiration from natural and built environments. Her studio practice investigates the psychological connection between landscape and people through visual storytelling. Caldarise uncovers the extraordinary hidden in plain sight through the exploration of landscapes, conversations, and research. Using the language of landscape, her art explores the tension between real and surreal encouraging viewers to question their surroundings.

There's a moment when you blink and your perspective shifts, the artwork is situated in that transitional moment. Encapsulated therein is an examination of movement, creating an experience for the viewer to feel that "each space seems like we've just arrived at the scene of...". Caldarise’s paintings evolve over time, possessing a mutable yet distinct character — akin to the changing impressions one gets when revisiting a favorite book. The experience alters with each encounter, enriched by previous engagements. The paintings perform as an oculus, to utilize environments as entry points for open-ended narratives drawing on the collective consciousness. Layered with happiness, trauma, and inequity, landscapes function as mirrors of our present. By investigating various viewpoints--historical, personal, and imagined--we create empathy within our ever-changing world. These paintings are derived from experiences within the social and physical environments around us.

Caldarise’s paintings are inspired by research trips to national parks, including Olympic, Death Valley, Joshua Tree, Big Sur, Petrified Forest, and Yosemite. Many of these works emerged from the artist’s experiences, informed by research into geological history, ecological studies, and folklore among other research tangents. These artworks look closely at iconic vistas to delve into the emotions and histories of these distinctive environments.

Biography
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Andrea Bartine Caldarise is a contemporary landscape painter. Caldarise received a BFA in painting and art history at Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University and holds a Masters in Arts Administration from the University of Pennsylvania. From 2010-13 she collaborated with a Philadelphia dance company to create unique artwork centered on personal timelines and first-person accounts, which were used to engage audiences through interactive modern dance. Upon moving to New York, Caldarise became an artistic collaborator with the theatre group, Exquisite Corpse Company, from 2014-2019. During this time, she worked on environments for their immersive plays, produced on Governors Island. The plays engaged with themes varying from feminist artist identities, memories around physical places, relationships, and climate change. Caldarise has been awarded residencies at Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2018), Post Contemporary, Troy, NY (2010 and 2013), and the Ellen Batell Stoekel Fellowship, Yale School of Art, Norfolk, CT (2009). In 2019, she was awarded a grant from the FST Studio Projects Fund to support her studio practice. Andrea Bartine Caldarise exhibits her art nationally and lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

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Education

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University of Pennsylvania
Masters of Liberal Arts, Arts Administration

Tyler School of Art, Temple University
Bachelors of Fine Arts, Painting and Art History

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Awards and Residencies

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2019
FST Studio Projects Fund, Brooklyn, NY

2017-2018
Resident Artist, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY  

2013 and 2010
Painting Fellowship, Post Contemporary, Troy, NY

2008
Ellen Batell Stoekel Fellowship, Yale School of Art, Norfolk, CT

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Collaborative Projects, Publications, Artist Talks

2023
New Visionary Magazine, Issue 7

2019
Water, Water, Everywhere..., Artistic collaboration with Exquisite Corpse Company, Governors Island, NY

Andrea Caldarise: The Intersection of Location and Memory, Essay by Artist Paula Cahill

2018
Artist talk, First Year Integrative Seminar, The New School, Parsons

2017
A Ribbon About a Bomb, Artistic collaboration with Exquisite Corpse Company, Governors Island, NY‍

Artist Talk, First Year Integrative Seminar, The New School, Parsons, New York, NY

2016
Past is Present, Guest Artist, Philadelphia Open Studio Tours (POST) with Artist Paula Cahill  

The Enchanted Realm of Rene Magritte, With Exquisite Corpse Company, House 17, Governors Island, NY

2015
Real Live People PRESENTS, A weekend showcase of new work by the collaborators of Real Live People

2013
The Jobs Project, Artistic collaboration with RealLivePeople and Composer Ilan Isakov ‍

That Time, Philadelphia International Festival of Arts (PIFA), Collaboration Tongue & Groove Theatre and RealLivePeople

2011
Backstories, a collaboration with RealLivePeople and Composer Ilan Isakov

Related Professional Experience

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2017-2022
Manager of Education Programs and Academic Outreach, New Museum, New York, NY

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Exhibitions

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Two and Three-Person

2023
Sediments: Lauren Alyssa Bierly & Andrea Bartine Caldarise, The Yard, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY

2021
Inside Weather, Tutu Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2018
Winged Woman: Three Perspectives, The Painted Bride, Philadelphia, PA

2016
Past is Present, POST, Crane Old School, Philadelphia, PA

Solo

2023
Artist Showcase, Cartesian Brewing, Philadelphia, PA

2016
In Two Parks at Once, InLiquid at Crane Hall, Crane Arts, Philadelphia, PA

2014
Philly to BK in an NY Minute, Deck Salon, Brooklyn, NY‍

‍2013
Workings in Synthetics, Soup Kitchen Cafe, Philadelphia, PA ‍

Workings in Paper, Big Irv's Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2012
Solo Show, Soup Kitchen Café, Philadelphia, PA

2011
Four Walls Squared, Willow Suites Gallery & ArtSpace629, Lebanon, PA ‍

2009
Map Quest It!, Stella Elkins Student Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

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Select Group ‍

2024
New Now VII, InLiquid Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2014 and 2023
COLOR, Group Exhibition, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2023
To Darken, Lightly, curated by Audra Lambert, The LIC-A Art Space, NY‍

Chroma, PxP Contemporary and Create!Magazine, Paradigm Arts Building, Philadelphia, PA‍

Superfine Art Fairs: San Francisco, CA, Seattle, WA, Washington, DC

2022
Superfine Art Fairs: Washington, D.C., New York, NY, and Seattle, WA

2022
Summer Group Show, NYC 2022‍

Lucid Streaming, Pop-Up show by Echo Art Collective, NYC

2021-2022
Depth Perception, The Yard: City Hall Park, NYC

2020
Vernal Longing, online at InLiquid.com

2019-2020
Velvet Ropes, GIFC, various locations traveling exhibition

2019
The Other Art Fair, presented by Saatchi Art, Brooklyn Expo Center, NY

2018
Watch It Burn, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

From Canal to the Crevices, OPEN SOURCE, Gowanus Open Studios Exhibition, Brooklyn, NY

Memory House, Exquisite Corpse Company, House 404a, Governors Island, NYC‍

On Site, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Corseted Community, Puentes, No Muros/ Bridges, Not Walls, Centro Estatal de las Artes, Querétaro, Mexico

2017
Unrestricted: A visual dialogue among trestle Residents, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Benefit Show, InLiquid, Crane Hall, Philadelphia, PA

The Tiny Biennial, Temple University, Rome Campus Gallery, Rome, Italy

2015SECESSION 2015, Exquisite Corpse Company. House 17, Governors Island, NYC

The Loft Show, Bushwick Open Studios, Brooklyn, NY‍

NYU Administrators Showcase, Kimmel Center, NYU, New York, NY

2013
1st Annual Members Show, Group Exhibit, Ice Box Project Space, Crane Arts, Philadelphia, PA

2011
Group Show, O.U.R. Gallery, Port Richmond, Philadelphia, PA

‍InLiquid’s Art for the Cash Poor, Ice Box Project Space, Crane Arts, Philadelphia, PA‍

Victory for Tyler: Works on Paper, Ice Box Project Space, Crane Arts, Philadelphia, PA‍

2010
Endangered City, Globe Dye Works, Philadelphia, PA