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Pat Andrea

A magical realist and neo-figurative painter and mixed-media artist widely known for his darkly humorous works exploring sexuality, fear, desire, and death, Pat Andrea took inspiration from the works of Lewis Carroll and the contrasts of beauty and violence he encountered during his travels in Latin America in the 1970s. Imbued with a palpable sense of eroticism and violence, works such as El Angelito (2010–2016) or The Bleeding Door (2011) depict an ambiguous and troubled universe populated by female figures unleashed from his unconscious; their elongated legs and enlarged heads give them the appearance of grotesquely distorted dolls. Andrea conjures a bizarre world which blends the dreamlike surrealism of Alice in Wonderland with the very real horrors of Argentina’s state-sanctioned violence.