Artist Statement

Artist Portrait by Divine Brujeria .2024

Andrea Bartine Caldarise is a landscape painter investigating the psychological connection between people and the environment. While wandering about a landscape, Caldarise seeks with the mind’s eye, noting first impressions to in the studio as source material. As she develops the painting themes, Caldarise researches plants, folklore, and geological histories to locate through-lines with her first impressions. With this process, she aspires to weave a lived experience with artist-created source material and research. Her artwork is situated in transitional moments, examining ephemeral qualities of a landscape to craft an experience of discovery for the viewer. Each space seems like something, or someone has just arrived at the scene. Caldarise’s paintings position environments as entry points for open-ended narratives drawing on the collective consciousness. Her paintings evolve over time, possessing a mutable yet distinct character — akin to the changing impressions one gets when revisiting a favorite book. The experience alters with each encounter, enriched by previous engagements. By investigating various viewpoints: historical, personal, and imagined, we can create empathy within our ever-changing world. These paintings are derived from experiences within the social and physical environments around us. Using the language of landscape, her art explores the tension between real and surreal.

Artist Bio

Andrea Bartine Caldarise is a painter exploring the psychological connection between landscape and people. She received a BFA (Painting/Art History) from Tyler School of Art, Temple University, studying at Temple Rome Campus and receiving the Ellen Battell Stoeckel Fellowship at Yale University. She holds a Masters in Arts Administration from the University of Pennsylvania. In addition to her painting practice, Caldarise has collaborated with dance company, RealLivePeople (2010-2013) creating artworks centered on first-person accounts to engage audiences through memory exercises and dance. From 2014-2019, Caldarise collaborated with Exquisite Corpse Company, building environments for immersive plays engaging with a variety of themes from manifesting memories around ideas of home to grappling with climate change. Caldarise worked at the New Museum of Contemporary Art as the Manager of Public Programs (2017-2022), producing public programs.

A lover of cities and wilderness alike, her early paintings feature city parks as community hubs of everyday life, and her recent artwork draws inspiration from research trips to national parks, including Olympic, Death Valley, Joshua Tree, Big Sur, Petrified Forest, and Yosemite, among others. These artworks begin at iconic vistas, charting the emotions, histories, and secrets of these distinctive environments. Caldarise has participated in residencies at Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2018) and Post Contemporary, Troy, NY (2010; 2013) and received the FST Studio Projects Fund grant (2019). Andrea Bartine Caldarise has exhibited in New York City, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington D.C. and Rome, Italy.

Curriculum Vitae

  • University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, Masters of Liberal Arts, Arts Administration
    Temple University, Tyler School of Art, Bachelors of Fine Arts, Painting and Art History

  • ChaNorth Residency, Chashama , Pine Plaines, NY, 2024
    FST Studio Projects Fund, Brooklyn, NY 2019
    Resident Artist, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2017-2018
    Painting Fellowship, Post Contemporary, Troy, NY, 2013 and 2010
    Ellen Batell Stoekel Fellowship, Yale School of Art, Norfolk, CT, 2008

  • Sediments: Lauren Alyssa Bierly & Andrea Bartine Caldarise, The Yard, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY 2023
    Inside Weather, Tutu Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2021
    Winged Woman: Three Perspectives, The Painted Bride, Philadelphia, PA 2018
    Past is Present, POST, Crane Old School, Philadelphia, PA 2016

  • Artist Showcase, Cartesian Brewing, Philadelphia, PA 2023
    In Two Parks at Once, InLiquid at Crane Hall, Crane Arts, Philadelphia, PA 2016
    Philly to BK in an NY Minute, Deck Salon, Brooklyn, NY 2014
    Workings in Synthetics, Soup Kitchen Cafe, Philadelphia, PA 2013
    Workings in Paper, Big Irv's Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2013
    Four Walls Squared, Willow Suites Gallery & ArtSpace629, Lebanon, PA 2011

  • COLOR Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition Gallery, Brooklyn, NY September 2023
    To Darken, Lightly, curated by Audra Lambert, The LIC-A Art Space, NY, September 2023
    Chroma, curated by PxP Contemporary and Create! Magazine, Paradigm Arts Building, Philadelphia, PA August, 2023
    Superfine Art Fairs: San Francisco, CA, Seattle, WA, Washington DC, 2023
    Superfine Art Fairs: Washington DC, NYC, Seattle. 2022
    Summer Group Show, NYC 2022
    Lucid Streaming, Pop-Up show by Echo Art Collective, NYC, 2022
    Depth Perception, The Yard: City Hall Park, NYC, 2021-2022
    Vernal Longing, online at InLiquid.com, 2020
    The Other Art Fair, presented by Saatchi Art, Brooklyn Expo Center, NY 2019
    Watch It Burn, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2018
    From Canal to the Crevices, OPEN SOURCE, Gowanus Open Studios Exhibition, Brooklyn, NY 2018
    Memory House, Exquisite Corpse Company. House 404a, Governors Island, NYC 2018
    This is a distraction, Exquisite Corpse Company, IFACP Raw Residency at The Parlour, New York, NY 2018
    On Site, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2018
    Corseted Community, Puentes - No Muros/ Bridges - Not Walls, Centro Estatal de las Artes, Querétaro, Mexico 2018
    Unrestricted: A visual dialogue among trestle Residents, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2017
    Benefit Show, InLiquid, Crane Hall, Philadelphia, PA 2017
    The Tiny Biennial, Temple University, Rome Campus Gallery, Rome, Italy 2017
    SECESSION 2015, Exquisite Corpse Company. House 17, Governors Island, NYC 2015
    The Loft Show, Bushwick Open Studios, Brooklyn, NY 2015
    NYU Administrators Showcase, Kimmel Center, NYU, NY 2015
    COLOR, Group Exhibit, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2014
    1st Annual Members Show, Group Exhibit, Ice Box Project Space, Crane Arts, Philadelphia, PA 2013
    Group Show, O.U.R. Gallery, Port Richmond, Philadelphia, PA 2011
    InLiquid’s Art for the Cash Poor, Ice Box Project Space, Crane Arts, Philadelphia, PA 2011
    Victory for Tyler: Works on Paper, Ice Box Project Space, Crane Arts, Philadelphia, PA 2011
    Endangered City, Globe Dye Works, Philadelphia, PA 2010

  • Water, Water, Everywhere... Artistic collaboration with Exquisite Corpse Company, House 404a, Governors Island, NYC. 2019
    Andrea Caldarise: The Intersection of Location and Memory- Essay by Artist Paula Cahill, 2018
    Artist talk, First Year Integrative Seminar, The New School, Parsons, 2017
    A Ribbon About a Bomb- Artistic collaboration with Exquisite Corpse Company, House 407b, Governors Island, NYC, 2017
    Artist talk, First Year Integrative Seminar, The New School, Parsons 2016
    Past is Present - Guest Artist, Philadelphia Open Studio Tours (POST) with Artist Paula Cahill, 2016
    The Enchanted Realm of Rene Magritte- With Exquisite Corpse Company, House 17, Governors Island, NYC, 2016
    Real Live People PRESENTS- A weekend showcase of new work by the collaborators of Real Live People, 2015

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Artist exploring Zebrinski Point
Death Valley National Park

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