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		Born San Francisco, CA, 1949 Education 1971 B.A. Indiana University, Bloomington, IN Grants 2007 The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc. Solo Exhibitions 2018 A Delicate Crossing, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA 2015 Off the Grid: Recent Works on Paper, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA 2014 The 365 Calendar Drawings, The Adkins Arboretum, Ridgely, MD 2013 Retrospective 1982–2012, American University Museum, Washington, DC Venetian Dream, Curator’s Office, Washington, DC Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2011 Venetian Dream, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA 2008 The 365 Paintings of 2007, Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2005 Drawings, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA New Work, Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC 2004 Recent Works on Paper, Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (catalogue) 2003 Recent Works on Paper, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA 2001 New Paintings: Triple Treasure, Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC 2000 New Paintings, Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC 1998 New Work: Gravity Pools, Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC 1995 David Adamson Gallery, Washington, DC 1994 In Black and White, Nancy Drysdale Gallery, Washington, DC 1993 Brody’s Gallery, Washington, DC 1991 Retrospective 1981–91, Brody’s Gallery, Washington, DC 1989 Brody’s Gallery, Washington, DC (catalogue) Fendrick Gallery, New York, NY 1987 Brody’s Gallery, Washington, DC 1986 Brody’s Gallery, Washington, DC 1985 Fendrick Gallery, Washington, DC 1983 Fendrick Gallery, Washington, DC 1982 Barbara Kornblatt Gallery, Washington, DC 1980 Barbara Fiedler Gallery, Washington, DC Group Exhibitions 2022 FRAMED: Works by Peter Alexander, Robert Arneson, Andrew Belschner, Roy De Forest, Adam Fowler, Dana Hart-Stone, Robert Hudson, Ed Moses, Ruth Pastine, Paul Sarkisian and Andrea Way, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA 2020 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA; exhibition catalog 2014 12th National Drawing Invitational: Outside the Lines, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, Pierogi XX, Brooklyn, NY 2012 Abstract Drawings, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC (space): Constructing the Intangible, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 2011 Multiplicity, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC Subjective/Objective, Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2009 Paper/Mylar/Vellum, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA 2008 Horror Vacui, McKenzie Fine Art, New York, NY Modern Art. Modern Lives. Then + Now, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX Pattern Recognition, Adamson Gallery, Washington DC Rembrandt to Thiebaud: A decade of collecting workings on paper, Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of California, San Francisco, CA 2007 Works on Paper, Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC 2005 Good Vibrations, McKenzie Fine Art, New York, NY 2004 Concentrics, Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC 200 Drawings from the Pierogi Flat Files, Illinois State University, Normal, IL 2002 25th Anniversary Exhibition, The Drawing Center, New York, NY 2001 Interplay, American Physical Society, American Center for Physics, College Park, MD, Sarah Tanguy, curator 1996 Drawings: Realism to Abstraction, Contemporary Survey of the Bay Area, Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA 1995 Irrational Landscapes: Mapping the Unconscious Psyche and Non-Terrestrial Spaces, Binghamton State University, Binghamton, NY, and traveling to New York Academy of Sciences, New York, NY 1993 NNDG, Emerson Gallery, McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA Cryptics, School 33, Baltimore, MD 1992 Drawn in the 90’s, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY, Joshua Smith, curator Prints Washington ’92, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC 1991 Recent Acquisitions, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC High Density Abstraction, Proctor Art Center, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 42nd Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (catalogue) Second Bharat Bhavan International Biennial of Prints, Roopankar Museum of Arts, Bhopal, India (invitational) Collaboration: Prints as Process, Brody’s Gallery and Gallery K, Washington, DC 1990 Bones, Brody’s Gallery, Washington, DC Fendrick at Foster, Foster Gallery, University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire, WI Drawing the Line, Fendrick Gallery, New York, NY 1989 Tools in Art: Tools as Art, Brody’s Gallery, Washington, DC Lines of Vision: Drawings by Contemporary Women, Hillwood Art Gallery, Long Island University, Brookville, NY, and traveling internationally, Judy C. Van Wagner, curator (catalogue) 1988 Transcendence, Baumgartner Gallery, Washington, DC Alphanumeric, Brody’s Gallery, Washington, DC 1987 On Paper, Jane Haslem Gallery, Washington, DC 1986 Drawings, Brody’s Gallery, Washington, DC Drawn Out, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (catalogue) 1985 The Washington Show, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (catalogue) Art Selections 28, The Drawing Center, New York, NY 1984 Labor Intensive Abstraction, Clocktower Gallery, New York, NY 1982 Juried Painting Show, Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA, Jane Livingston, juror 1980 Elements in Art: Form, Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA, Louis Andre, curator (catalogue) Paper: A Group of Changing Uses and Concepts, Gallery 10, Washington, DC 1979 Elements in Art: Texture, Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA, David Tannous, curator (catalogue) Public Collections Achenbach Foundation, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA The Artery Organization, Bethesda, MD City Art Collection, John A. Wilson Building, Washington, DC Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI Continental Corporation, Richmond, VA Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Crowell & Moring, Washington, DC Federal Reserve Board, Washington, DC Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC KPMG Peat Marwick, Washington, DC The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC Prudential Insurance Company, Newark, NJ Putnam, Hayes & Bartlett, Inc., Washington, DC Quick, Finan and Associates, Washington, DC Sallie Mae Corporation, Washington, DC Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC Southeast Banking Corporation, Miami, FL The Washington Post, Washington, DC Selected Bibliography Allen, Jane Addams, “Drawing on the Intellect,” The Washington Times, 11 November 1986. Baker, Kenneth, “Abstract Painting with a Twist,” San Francisco Chronicle, 6 November 1991. Cameron, Dan, “Is There Hope for Art in Washington?,” New Art Examiner, March 1988: pp. 33-37. Cohen, Jean Lawler, “Formal Abstraction,” Museum and Arts Washington, September/October 1989. Dawson, Jessica, “Andrea Way at Marsha Mateyka,” The Washington Post, 22 November 2001, p. C5. Dorman, Mark, “Collaboration: Prints as Process,” New Art Examiner, April 1991: p. 40. Eskin, Otho, “Andrea Way: New Drawings, Brody’s Gallery,” Washington Review, December 1987/January 1988: p. 23. Forgey, Benjamin, “A Gentle, Funny Tour in No-Man’s Land,” The Washington Star, May 1980. Garber, Elaine, “Andrea Way, Triple Treasure,” Washington Review, Spring 2002: p. 12. Gibson, Eric, “Corcoran Puts Painting to Test as Viable Form,” The Washington Times, 6 September 1991, p. E2. _____, “On Display: Finding Quiet Beauty Along Irregular Lines,” The Washington Times, 24 October 1991, p. M8. Howard, Beth, “Recommends,” Museum and Arts Washington, November/December 1986: p. 15. Huberman, Bernardo A., “An Ecology of Machines,” The Sciences, July/August 1989: p. 38 (illus.). Kessler, Pamela, “Drawn Out: Getting a Line on Seven Artists,” The Washington Post, 5 December 1986, Weekend, p. 61. Lewis, Jo Ann, “Andrea Way at Fendrick Gallery,” The Washington Post, 27 April 1985. _____, “Andrea Way’s Rules of Intuition,” The Washington Post, 10 October 1987. _____, “The Visual Launching Pad,” The Washington Post, 17 October 1987, p. D2. _____, “Auras of Abstraction,” The Washington Post, 9 January 1988, p. D2. _____, “Acquisitions,” The Washington Post, 25 October 1991, pp. B1, B8. Mahoney, J.W., “Transcendence at Baumgartner,” Art in America, April 1988: pp. 213-14. _____, “Andrea Way at Brody’s,” Art in America, April 1990: p. 274. McCoy, Mary, “Alfred de Credico/Andrea Way,” New Art Examiner, June 1985: p. 51. _____, “Andrea Way, Brody’s Gallery,” New Art Examiner, Summer 1986: p. 51. McWilliams, Martha, “Shaping Up,” City Paper, April 1993. Phillips, Stephen, “Recent Works on Paper,” exhibition catalogue, Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2004. Posner, Helaine, “Andrea Way: Drawings: The Standard Bearer,” exhibition catalogue, Brody’s Gallery, Washington, DC, 1989. _____, Print Collector’s Newsletter, vol. XXI, no.4, September/October 1990. Protzman, Ferdinand, “Musical Geometric Abstraction,” The Washington Post, 30 September 1995, p. D2. _____, “The Force is With Her,” The Washington Post, 17 September 1998, p. D5. _____, “The Inviting Depths of Andrea Way’s Pools,” The Washington Post, 23 March 2000, p. C5. Raynor, Vivien, “Art Selections 28, The Drawing Center,” The New York Times, 3 February 1985. Richard, Paul, “Whimsical Way with Patterns,” The Washington Post, 5 April 1986. _____, “Spectrum of Superlatives,” The Washington Post, 29 November 1986, p. D14. _____, “Abstract and Personal, At the Corcoran Biennial, a Passionate Bow to the Past,” The Washington Post, 6 September 1991, pp. F1, F6. Rifkin, Ned, “Drawn Out,” exhibition catalogue, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1986. Risatti, Howard, “Reviews: Washington, DC,” Artforum, January 1990: p. 146. Russell, John, “Memorable Images in an Anthology of Drawing,” The New York Times, July 1992, p. 5J. Schmerler, Sarah, “Seeing Brooklyn in the Details,” Art on Paper, May/June 2003: pp. 48-51. Shannon, Joe, “Andrea Way at Marsha Mateyka,” Art in America, October 2002: p. 168. Sultan, Terrie, “42nd Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting,” exhibition catalogue, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1991. Tannous, David, “Report from Washington, DC,” Art in America, Summer 1982. _____, “Andrea Way: Retrospective 1982–2012,” exhibition catalogue (interview with artist), American University Museum, Washington, DC, 2013. Thorson, Alice, “Galleries,” The Washington Times, 11 November 1986. _____, “Galleries: Two Approaches to the Group Show,” The Washington Times, 30 July 1987. _____, “Brushing the Surface,” City Paper, 26 September 1991. Van Wagner, Judy C., Lines of Vision: Drawings by Contemporary Women, Hudson Hills Press, New York, 1989. Welzenbach, Michael, “A Way with Patterns,” The Washington Post, 7 October 1989, p. C2. _____, “Galleries: Andrea Way at Brody’s Gallery,” The Washington Post, 19 October 1991, p. D1. Wilson, Janet, “Heavenly Hodgepodge: At the Hirshhorn, Trotting out the Recent Acquisitions,” The Washington Post, 25 October 1991, pp. B1, B8. _____, “The Euclidian Rainbow,” The Washington Post, 17 April 1993, p. C2.