Andrea Worley

May 1st - 22nd
Artist Reception Friday, May 1st 7 - 9pm

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Andrea Worley is a native of Chattanooga who lives about forty minutes out of Charlotte in rural North Carolina where she has a separate studio on her property. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with honors in Studio Drawing from The University of Tennessee (1976) and her Master of Fine Arts in Studio Painting and Drawing with highest honors from East Tennessee State University (1991). Worley taught Figure Drawing at the Evansville Museum and Freshman Drawing at ETSU. She accomplished this despite battling severe bipolar disorder and narcolepsy, disorders she has dealt with virtually all her life. Her abstract work, in fact, reflects that battle to a striking degree.

The themes of her work have arisen from her lifelong habit of writing detailed accounts of her vivid dreams and nightmares that are symptomatic of both disorders, as well as on issues of violence and abuse against women. Her work, in short, has been concerned with exploring, abstractly, the internal worlds of abuse and the effects of illness. Although that makes her artwork sound depressing, it is, on the contrary, filled with an underlying sense of hope and promise.

Worley's work has been seen in solo, two-person, and group exhibitions in Tennessee, Indiana, California, and North Carolina over the past two decades. Her work has won various awards and is held in a number of private collections, including the collection of the Claremont School of Theology in California. Her most recent show, an invitational solo exhibit, was at Gardner-Webb University in North Carolina in 2008.

PERSISTENT NIGHTMARES: New Abstract Drawings by ANDREA WORLEY
May 1st - 22nd Artist Reception Friday, May 1st 7 - 9pm · · · · · Andrea Worley is a native of Chattanooga who lives about forty minutes out of Charlotte in rural North Carolina where she has a separate studio on her property. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with honors in Studio Drawing from The University of Tennessee (1976) and her Master of Fine Arts in Studio Painting and Drawing with highest honors from East Tennessee State University (1991). Worley taught Figure Drawing at the Evansville Museum and Freshman Drawing at ETSU. She accomplished this despite battling severe bipolar disorder and narcolepsy, disorders she has dealt with virtually all her life. Her abstract work, in fact, reflects that battle to a striking degree. The themes of her work have arisen from her lifelong habit of writing detailed accounts of her vivid dreams and nightmares that are symptomatic of both disorders, as well as on issues of violence and abuse against women. Her work, in short, has been concerned with exploring, abstractly, the internal worlds of abuse and the effects of illness. Although that makes her artwork sound depressing, it is, on the contrary, filled with an underlying sense of hope and promise. Worley's work has been seen in solo, two-person, and group exhibitions in Tennessee, Indiana, California, and North Carolina over the past two decades. Her work has won various awards and is held in a number of private collections, including the collection of the Claremont School of Theology in California. Her most recent show, an invitational solo exhibit, was at Gardner-Webb University in North Carolina in 2008.
A Very Special Old Wise Woman 35" x 32" graphite, charcoal & powdered charcoal on Fabriano Artistico paper





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