From Art Philanthropy To Artist
Biography
Andrea Maw has been putting paint to canvas since her early twenties, using her artistic expression as refuge from her demanding career in real estate development, all while raising two daughters and supporting her community in philanthropic efforts.
Artistic talent runs deep in Andrea’s family. Her grandfather was a painter of note in Germany in the early 1900s. Her mother, Ingrid Losch, painted extensively which greatly influenced Andrea's interest, confidence and passion for painting. As Ingrid’s career flourished, Andrea supported her mother by introducing Ingrid’s art to a large social community who have actively supported local artists and institutions that foster and sponsor the arts.
To this end, Andrea was a Director of the Granville Island Trust, serving on behalf of the Federal Government of Canada. The Trust was mandated to redevelop the industrial age relics of machine works facilities on the waterfront into a culturally rich collection of spaces including for North America’s largest indoor Farmers Market, artisan studios (glass blowing, fiber arts, pottery, sculpture, painting and more), galleries, performing arts stages, the Emily Carr College of Art and Design, and the Art’s Umbrella Childrens Art School for the visual and performing arts.
Andrea was also a director of Art’s Umbrella for several years while her children attended painting, sculpting, and dance classes. And since fundraising was always of primary concern to provide scholarships for financially disadvantaged children, Andrea was active in these efforts, including as Co-Chair of the annual art auction soiree that brought together art collectors with the works of locally renown artists, who kindly donated pieces annually.
After two more decades of her real estate career centered in the Southwest United States and a lifetime of supporting the arts, 2020 offered Andrea a long awaited opportunity to paint full-time, expressing her own artistic talent in her Scottsdale studio. As a result, she has produced several works as part of her first formal series. As an experienced speaker, teaching thousands of people entrepreneurial skills including her work with missionaries and villagers in Zambia, Africa, Andrea’s talents relied on written and verbal communication to empower people’s personal growth and success. Embracing the circumstances of 2020, Andrea is experiencing pure joy refocusing communications skills through the visual medium of art to move people intrinsically and viscerally, a perfect medium these days in a world of fleeting attention spans.
Andrea’s current technique, ‘oil on canvas’ in the style of hyper realism, serves her exacting nature well and her philosophy that ‘God is in the detail’, thus bringing about a fully dimensional effect that commands presence. She also introduces a sense of movement so that her works contain an energetic of something in the act - ‘still lifes’ in motion. ‘Glass With Water’ is an example of bringing the viewer to the immediacy of water in process of flowing. In other works, it’s light in the act of its luminosity.
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Education
Andrea studied painting with her mother, Ingrid Losch, a professional artist whose painting career spanned the 1960s to 2016 in Vancouver, Canada
Style
Andrea specializes in oils on canvas in a style of hyper realism. She is fascinated with hyper realism because for her, ‘God is in the detail.’ Her works are currently featured in two contemporary series in shows, galleries and in online juried exhibitions.
Exhibitions + Awards
2022 Greater Phoenix Economic Council ‘The Ties That Bind’ Exhibit featuring ‘Bouquet’
2021 Merit Award, Grey Cube Gallery Painting + Photography 2021 for ‘Crystal Clear’
2021 Best In Show Platinum Award, Camelback Gallery Realism 2021 for ‘Chandelier’
2021 Honorable Mention, Art Room Gallery 2021 “Waters” Competition for ‘Crystal Clear’
2021 Bronze Award, Camelback Gallery Open 2021 International Painting Competition for ‘Lightful Vases’
2021 Honorable Mention, Grey Cube Gallery Floral Competition for ‘Lightful Vases’
2021 Honorable Mention, Grey Cube Gallery Open 2021 Competition for ‘Crystal Clear’ and ‘Chandelier’
2021 Certificate of Participation, Luxembourg Art Prize, Luxembourg, 2021 for ‘Crystal Clear’, ‘Shimmer: Light Through Pretty Glass’, ‘Chandelier’, ‘Diamonds’, and ‘Bouquet’
July 2021 Featured Artist + One Year Residency, Camelback Gallery, Scottsdale AZ
2020 Certificate of Participation, Luxembourg Art Prize, Luxembourg, 2020 for “Concert Poster’
Galleries
FOUND:RE Contemporary, Phoenix, AZ Dec 2021-March 2022 exhibit for ‘Crystal Clear’ and ‘Chandelier’
Xanadu Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ 2020 and 2021 online www.XanaduGallery.com exhibit of various Individual Works
Catalogues/Publications
Art Seen
WOMEN’s CAUCUS for ART Dec 15/2021-Feb28/2022 “Bouquet’
Orange County Holiday Catalogue 2021
Artlink Phoenix Urban Guide, online www.ArtistsAZ.com
ARTWEEK Camelback Gallery Feature Announcement July 2021 ‘Diamonds’
Xanadu Gallery Art Catalogue Nov-Dec 2021 ‘Lightful Vases’
Xanadu Gallery Art Catalogue Jul-Aug 2021 ‘Bouquet: All Blood Runs Red Under The Skin’
Xanadu Gallery Art Catalogue May-Jun 2021 ‘Diamonds’, ‘Diamond + Two Settings’, ’Chandelier’
Xanadu Gallery Art Catalogue Nov-Dec 2020 ‘Crystal Clear’
Associations
National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society - Member
Oil Painters of America - Associate Member
Private Collectors
Cynthia and Michael Griffin, Scottsdale, AZ
Kimberly and Allan Henderson, Santa Rosa, CA
Connie Kreiner-Chastain, Scottsdale, AZ
Herbert and Ingrid Losch, Peachland, BC, Canada
Amanda and Matthew McNulty, Tacoma, WA
Ronald Meronk, Scottsdale, AZ
Lauren and Rodney Meronk, Scottsdale, AZ
Series
‘Light Through Glass, Gems + Jewels’
This series is a study in light, shadow and all the nuances of their interplay, as a reflection of our true inner nature - as beings of light with all the same qualities of the interplay between shadow and light.
‘Truth Serums’
Andrea's new series ‘Truth Serums’ is a shift from portraying a particular object with the metaphor of becoming whole as individuals, to portraying ideas, in particular fundamental truths about our humanness in terms of our relationship to each other, and to the world. This series explores how we bring our diversity together into unity so that we can evolve from the power of being individual co-creators to that of a community of co-creators working at the intersection of diversity towards a common vision for fresh visions, solutions and new goals.