Andrea wedell
Andrea is the daughter and grand-daughter of artists and architects. Growing up, she was surrounded by strong willed artists, and grew to hold beauty, balance and a commitment to art as the guiding forces in her own life.
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When her grandfather, Alexander Stoller sold half of his land in the Berkshire mountains to cast one of his largest marble sculptures in bronze, it was acquired by the American Embassy in Paris.
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Andrea attended the opening ceremony, and shortly after, captivated by the magnitude of culture available in Europe, uprooted from her native California and moved to Paris. The France adventure spanned 27 years before she moved back to her much loved California in 2013.
Andrea has a bachelor of Arts from UCLA, and while in Paris, she studied under acclaimed Beaux Art teachers Michele Massiou and Jacqueline Guillermain for over 10 years.
She began exhibiting regularly at the Grand Marche d’Art Contemporain in Paris, before becoming a permanent artist with Galerie BE Espace also in Paris for 10 years. Her work has been published by Les Editions Arcadia in France. In California, she was a featured artist at Toadfish Contemporary Gallery in Sausalito, has shown with Desta Gallery in San Anselmo and Mill-Valley, with Gray Loft Gallery in Oakland . She was a part of SFMoma Artist’s gallery in San Francisco.
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Statement
My paintings explore the unstable boundary between structure and atmosphere. Through layered color, erasure, and rebuilding, forms emerge that feel at once architectural and interior — built, weathered, and quietly dissolving.
I am drawn to stacked shapes, veiled passages of light, and drifting lines that hover between solidity and air. These elements suggest fragments of buildings, memories, or psychological spaces without becoming literal places. The work develops slowly through repeated acts of covering, scraping back, and reworking, allowing chance and intention to inform each other.
Color functions as emotional temperature. Subtle shifts of blue, grey, and luminous light create spaciousness and depth, while restrained warm accents appear as moments of intensity or recognition. Rather than describing a scene, the paintings seek to evoke states of being: standing, wavering, enduring, or persisting within an uncertain environment.
At their core, these works are meditations on presence — how we inhabit space, how structures support us, and how they can feel fragile at the same time. They hold a tension between making and unmaking, construction and erosion, stability and instability
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2025 - Group Show at The Armory I Boulder, Colorado
2023 Summer Salon i Gray Loft Gallery i Oakland CA - group
2022 -Distant Memory I Visionary Projects I New York - online
2021 - Making Connections, Desta Gallery | Mill Valley, CA - group
2019 - Current Abstractions, Gray Loft Gallery | Oakland, CA - group
2018 - Exquisite Little Things, Gray Loft Gallery | Oakland, CA - group
2018 - Relevance, Women Expressed, Desta Gallery | San Anselmo, CA - group
2017 - Contemporary Abstractions, Toadfish Gallery | Sausalito CA - group
Reality, Memory and Fiction, Desta Gallery | San Anselmo, CA - group
2016 - Abstractions, Toadfish Gallery | Sausalito, CA - group
2013 - Gallery Artists Group Show, Gallery BE Espace | Paris, France - group
2012 - Abstractions en Pastel, Galerie La Dame du Castellet | Provence, France - solo
2011 - L’art de Voir, Gallery Nadine | Paris, France - group
Gallery Artists Group Show, Gallery BE Espace | Paris, France - group
2010 - Le Tarot, Gallery BE Espace | Paris, France - solo
2009 - Gallery Artists Group Show, Gallery BE Espace | Paris, France - group
2007 - Le Grand Marche D’art Contemporain | Paris, France - fair
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Education
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Atelier Malutra, Painting, Drawing | Paris, France, 2002 - 2010
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Represented by
Desta Gallery | Mill Valley, CA
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PREVIOUS REPRESENTATION
SF MOMA Artist Gallery, San Francisco, Gallery BE Espace, Paris France
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