Andrea La Valleur-Purvis

Andrea La Valleur-Purvis cuts and welds steel into forms that hold opposing forces without resolving them. It engages with questions of identity, reinvention, and the self as something we continually keep choosing.

2019 – Post Graduate, Innovation and Design Thinking
MIT Sloan, Columbia and Tuck University via Emeritus

1999 – BFA, Sculpture
College of Visual Art, St. Paul, MN, USA

Solo Exhibitions
2026 – Small Works, Bosque Art Center, Clifton, TX

Group Exhibitions

2026
Slices and Shadows, ISC Exhibit at Quarter Gallery , University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Red Dot Art Spree 2026, Women & Their Work, Austin, TX
Circling, Spiraling, 39th Biennial SculpTour, Center for Contemporary Arts, Abilene, TX
Colors of Courage, DCAC, Dallas, TX
Haus Obscura Gallery, Austin, TX
60th CAIN National | CAIN Gallery, Del Mar College, Corpus Christi, TX, Juried by Tabitha Whitley
TEDxUTAustin | Gallery Experience, Austin, TX

2025 – “Museum Day” | Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum, Austin, TX

2025 – “Marfa Invitational Open | Texas”, Marfa, TX

2024 – “Small Works”, Art Center Waco, TX

2024 – “Museum Day”, Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum, Austin, TX

2024 – “Eclipse Shining Shadows”, Art Center Waco, Waco, TX

2000 – ”Foot in the Door”, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN

1999 – “Senior Show”, Western Gallery, CVA, St.Paul, MN