Artist Statement

"One sends a postcard and writes to a friend or relative, I am here. You are there. One writes to document the place, the time, a kind of map. I try to create a sense of place, recollect an environment, devise a new universe. Thus, postcards act as a metaphor of distance, separation and connection. Postcards function as a temporal souvenir announcing one's location and state of mind at a specific time in one's life. By collaging dissimilar forms together to make images appear coherent, the postcards remain illogical yet seamless narratives.

These postcards are art invitations that I receive in the mail and then transform. I respond to the artist’s work pictured, frustrated that I am not in that show! By altering those images to improve what is originally imprinted --to edit, correct, to distinguish, I make an effort to make my mark and be included." 

Won BEST in SHOW Martha Rhea Award, Smoky Hill River Festival, 2007

Pictured (left to right) Martha Rhea, Andrea Fuhrman, Karla Prickett

Jurors: Mark Masuoka, Executive Director and Senior Curator Bemis Center for Contemporary Art; Sydney Pener, Metalsmith Instructor, Johnson County Community College, and KS State U; Peter Pinnel, Potter, Associate Professor of Art, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; Ann Piper, Artist, Painting/ Drawing, Associate Professor of Art, Emporia State U, Emporia, KS.

Also won Purchase Award by Jurors for Salina Arts and Humanities collection.

Magic Suitcase, 2008, collage, mixed media

House Plan, 2007 Andrea Fuhrman

Fuhrman lives in Abilene KS; is rehabbing 210 North Cedar Street with Duane Kalman:

Exhibit at A.I.R. Gallery, October 2004; Installation view of one wall (exhibit had 4 walls with a similiar density of works).

Fuhrman as a visiting artist-in-residence at The Art and Culture Center, Kolin Ryynänen, Joensuu, Finland for six and a half weeks in 2004:

Review included Andrea Fuhrman in August 2006 issue. Andrea Fuhrman and partner Duane Kalman were interviewed May 17, 2006 on the Topeka KS ABC News Morning show: www.49abcnews.com

She was the featured artist in the March/April 2006 issue of Somerset Studio Magazine. Fuhrman was one of twelve winning artists for the Lake County Discovery Museum, Curt Teich Archives Postcard Art Competition / Exhibition in 2003, and an exhibitng artist in 2005.

Her sculpture was shown at the Textile Arts Centre in Chicago, (1993)and her postcard sized works were exhibited at A.I.R. Gallery in Chelsea, October / November 2004.

In January 2004, she was a artist in residence at Jentel in WY. She spent a month in Costa Rica at the Julia and David White Artist Residency in 2002. She has exhibited in St. Louis at the Center for Contemporary Arts, and Locus Gallery, and won second place at the St. Louis Art Fair in 1994.

Visit teicharchives.org or ArtistsRegister.com. Northeastern University published an article: www.numag.neu.edu/0503/huskytracks.shtml about her. She has also exhibited at Julie Baker Fine Art, Grass Valley; Delphine Gallery, Santa Barbara; Quicksilver Mine Company, Forestville,CA and Pamela Skinner Gallery, Sacramento. She studied fine arts at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Washington University in St. Louis.

Review of  Andrea Fuhrman at Locus Gallery, 2001 exhibit:

"Small has its advantages. All thirty-five mixed media pieces in Andrea Fuhrman's exhibit would easily slip inside a large handbag.  Titled "the way I see it", these painted collages all approximate the size of a snapshot and offer a peek into a tiny, mysterious world of tantalizing suggestions.  With surgical precision and a microscopic obsession with detail, Fuhrman creates an intimate, surreal universe where nothing makes sense but everything convinces us of its own internal logic. Each work is framed in a 1950’s dime store-style narrow, flowery gold frame and hung slightly crooked in a dense grid, touching its neighbor, with no space between.  This eccentric presentation creates an intense and rebellious effect that is repeated in the individual pieces.  

Looking like Persian miniatures gone awry, the series suggests a visual combination of Terry Winters, Kurt Schwitters and Paul Klee filtered through a blatantly female sensibility. Luscious painterly layers combine with quirky, off-the-wall, seemingly unrelated collage elements such as a small hairbrush, a fish, a spatula and a young Queen Elizabeth (the baroque one). Included are tiny bits and pieces of three-dimensional girlie detritus, shreds of ancient ribbon, hairs and threads, orphaned buttons and a tiny orthodontic rubberband. High and low culture mix gleefully as Fuhrman coyly sends us the message that one individual’s reaction to life’s nuances, trivia, pleasures and problems is significant.

Subversion comes both from the emphasis on female and on minutia. Fuhrman’s art takes clear pleasure in the intricacy, rich jewel-like color and pattern, flatness and sensuousness of the Eastern miniature genre but leaves the structured format and traditional male point-of-view behind.  She twists the genre to her own purpose which is to present her world, a female world, where the girl-woman rules.  Reinforcing her sly presentation of the sensuousness, dizziness and fun of being female are titles such as the knight is a girl, queen for a day, my palace, at home, seeing is believing and what its like here. Fuhrman whips up a frothy concoction of pale orange, sweet pink, creamy gold, enticing fruits and precarious balance in several compositions that almost start to twitter and move with a quirky energy.  In "at home", Fuhrman squelches the relaxing mood (created with Martha Stewart colors of peach, aqua, cream and gold) by inserting an off-kilter grid so that even in the domestic nest, life is something difficult, but intriguing, to deal with.  Her work leaves us with the same pleasurable daze we get from simultaneously channel-surfing and letting bites from a giant-size chocolate bar melt in our mouth."-----published in Art. St. Louis, Margaret Keller is St. Louis artist and teacher.

ANDREA FUHRMAN

210 North Cedar Street, Abilene, KS 67410
(785) 263-2848

E-mail: meowart@sbcglobal.net

EDUCATION

SOLO & TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

GROUP & CURATED EXHIBITS

ARTIST RESIDENCIES

AWARDS

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

ARTS RELATED EXPERIENCE

PUBLICATIONS

REVIEWS

"Trainspotting: Andrea Fuhrman", Review, Mid America's Visual Arts Publication, ArtKC365, by Steve Brisendine, 2/8/10

Review, August 2006, Andrea Fuhrman, Scissors, Stacks Gallery, Carnegie Arts Center p.29

Pitch, August 3 - 9, 2006, The Kindest Cut, Rebecca Braverman

Kansas City Star, Andrea Fuhrman exhibit August, 2006

Critics Pics,  Andrea Fuhrman, Sacramento Bee, March 17, 2006

Somerset Studio Magazine, 8 page artist profile, March/April 2006 issue

Lieksa Lehti, Finland, Andrea Fuhrman Minatures, Anna-Silja Suutarinen

Northeastern University Alumni News: Andrea Fuhrman, March 2005
Andrea Fuhrman: the way I see it, Locus Gallery, Margaret Keller, Art St. Louis, Vol. 15 No. 1 Spring/Summer 02
St. Louis Extract, Mad Art Gallery, Carol Ferring Shepley, Art St. Louis, Vol. 15 No. 1 Spring/Summer 02
Good Things in Small Packages, Wright Gallery, Taos, NM, 1999
St. Louis Post Dispatch, Arts as Healing, Phyllis Librach, June 1999
St. Louis Post Dispatch, Object Lessons, Jeff Daniels, July 1997
Riverfront Front Times, Small Wonders, Alyssa Chase, June 1997
Transforming the Object: The work of Andrea Fuhrman, Angela Reinoehl, Art St. Louis, summer 1997, Vol. 12, No. 1
Galesburg Post, Artists in Residence, summer, 1996
Zephyr, Sunday with the Artists, Galesburg, IL, 1996
KDHX Public Radio, Interviewed by Jean Ponzi, St. Louis, 1995
New Art Examiner: Bad Girls, Good Art, Deborah Wilk, Senior Editor, 1994
RiverFront Times, Penetrating Art, Paul Harris, 1994
St. Louis Post Dispatch, Greenville College Exhibit, Paul Harris, 1994
Chicago Reader, Fiber '94 review, Bonita McLaughlin
Art St. Louis, Cultural Diversity review, spring '94
Quincy Whig, Provocative Art review of 1995 Quad State Exhibit
Art in America, 1990-91 Annual Guide to Museums, Galleries & Artists
Amherst Bulletin, July 1989, Tobacco Barns and Beyond review
Cleveland Plain Dealer, 1988, Helen Cullinan, arts reviewer

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Arts and Humanities Foundation, Salina, KS
Adler Visual Systems, St. Louis, MO
Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, MO
Benesch Friedlander Company, Cleveland, OH
City of Salina, KS, Splash! glass mosaic mural, Public Art Collection

Clayton Counseling Associates, St. Louis, MO

Emprise Bank, Wichita KS, Emprise Bank Art Collection
Kane County Public Building Commission, Geneva, IL
Lashley and Baer, St. Louis, MO

Marriott Hotel, O'Hare Airport, Chicago, IL

Timothy Mickiewicz, DDS Positive Dental Attitude, Sacramento, CA

Pier 210 Dental Group, Auburn, CA
Clyde Leff, Owens Corning Fiberglass, Toledo, OH

Schubert Public Affairs, Orange County, CA
Stuart Karge, McDermott Will and Emory, Chicago, IL
Resource Careers, Inc., Cleveland, OH
RFP Clearing, St. Louis, MO
Washington University, St. Louis, MO