Selected Shows and Projects (Full CV)
EXHIBITIONS (* indicated solo)
2022
Techniques in Tapestry, (three-person with Bryana Bibbs and Sam Dienst), Praxis Fiber Workshop, Cleveland, OH (forthcoming)
2021
Toricho Art Festival, Fujisawa City, Kanagawa, Japan
It Takes a Village, The Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC
BIG BODY PLAY, Tiger Strikes Asteroid Greenville, Fine Arts Center in Greenville, SC
2020
B20: Wiregrass Biennial, Wiregrass Museum of Art, Dothan, AL (Juried, Jurors: Angie L. Barry, Curator of Exhibitions & Collections, GadsdenArts Center & Museum in Quincy, Florida; Dave Brown, PushCrankPress,Dothan, Alabama; Jackie Clay Executive Director, Coleman Center for theArts, York, AL; Mario Gallardo, Executive Director, Walnut Gallery, Gadsden,Alabama)
2020 North Carolina Artists Exhibition, CAM Raleigh, Raleigh, NC (Juried, Juror: Nat Trotman, Curator of Performance and Media at the Guggenheim R. Solomon Museum in New York)
COMMUNTIY
2020 Communal Coloring Book (Remote Response to COVID)
2019 Bridging, Central Piedmont Community College, Charlotte, NC [Supported by Central Piedmont Community College]
2015-Present, Friendge (ongoing)
CONTACT
AndreaEVail@gmail.com
BIO
Andrea Vail investigates contemporary American society and its objects -- specifically home goods deemed stylistically obsolete, or unattractive by the standards of 21st century mainstream culture to create sculpture and collaborative exchange. Her research explores trends of mass-production, habits of consumption and systems of artifice and authenticity.
EDUCATION
2014 M.F.A., Craft/Material Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
2003 B.F.A., Visual Art - Fibers, UNC-Charlotte, Charlotte, NC