Andrea Amelung

German-born artist Andrea Amelung is deeply devoted to the experimentation of process. She has developed a special method that incorporates a variety of mediums to produce intense colors that shimmer and radiate from the canvas. Amelung is a traveler at heart, with journeys and extended stays in many locales around the world. These experiences have served her well as an artist, collecting ideas, materials, and skills along the way. Since 1995, she has studied and painted in various artist studios, master classes, and workshops, efforts that have broadened her understanding of experimental processes and the practice of painting as a whole.
The extraordinary results of Amelungs diligent efforts are easy to discern. Her work, completed in a contemporary abstract expressionist style, is stunning to behold. Her achievements with texture produce a weathered, time-tested appearance to the application of paint. Other works are approached with gradations of a particular hue, to allow for the richest expression of the dominant color. Geometric forms and gestural lines are scrawled into or on top of the paint, evoking both modern and ancient art forms. Amelung will often employ raw pigments combined with unusual painting media such as modeli...

Art training/Art academies:
ArtCenter South Florida, Miami, Freie Universität Berlin, Akademie für Malerei Berlin, Freie Akademie für Kunst Berlin and self-taught.
Main subjects: abstract compositions.
Usual techniques: acrylic, raw pigments, rust and patina, mixed media on canvas.

Techniques:
Acrylic- and Pigmentpaintings
Into my large-sized acrylic paintings I use different materials, like paper, fibers, gypsum or plastic-modelling masses, etc. Everything is applied on in several layers, is washed off partially again and then applied again. On this relief-like structure form will form on which the acrylic colours are then applied. Coloured, luminous paintings with various layers and overlapping structures emerge.
Since 2000 I work with pigments that lend a radiant coloured powdered sugar effect to the paintings. I partly process the pigments with modelling mass, sand, ash or marble dust and apply them in relief-like layers to give the paintings materiality. I use the pure pigment as a color body, powdery and granular.

Rust and Patina
The rust works are created by different oxidation techniques with iron powder, iron filings, sand, copper particles, brass and bronze chips and various rust solutions.

Chalk works
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Exibitions:
Barcelona International Artfair BIAF
Galleria GUM, Miami, FL, USA
https://www.artsy.net/show/galleria-gum-the-4-elements
https://www.artsy.net/artist/andrea-amelung
Temporary Gallery Berlin - Charlottenburg
Private Office Berlin, Berlin-Mitte
Bundesverband Managed Care, Berlin - Mitte
Institut für angewandte Versorgungsforschung, inav Berlin - Mitte
Galerie Arte Casa, Porto Andratx, Mallorca, Spanien
AHOY Gallery Port Adriano, Mallorca, Spanien
Art gallery/Studio 13, Palma de Mallorca, Spanien,
Galerie Arte & Cafe, Portixol, Palma de Mallorca, Spanien
Gallery Boswell Mourot Fine Art, Little Rock, AR, USA
"Il Palagio", seat of Museum "Libero Andreotti, Pescia, Italien
Berliner Liste Artfair, Berlin
Art Expo Miami, USA, Dezember
Hotel AlexanderPlaza, Berlin-Mitte, wechselnde Ausstellungen
Villa Henckel, Potsdam
ArtExpo New York
Red Dot Art Fair New York
ARTnow Fair, Chicago
Produzentenmesse, Kommunale Galerie Berlin
Red Dot Art Fair Miami-Wynwood District
Select Art Fair Miami-Beach
Hotel Alexander Plaza, Berlin - Mitte
Galerie Zero, Barcelona, Spain
Hotel Am Hackeschen Markt, Berlin - Mitte
European Art on Tour, Palazzo Arese Borromeo, Milano, Italy
Dallas Fort Worth, USA
14th Beijing Inter...