Andrea Kastner "The Edges of Things"

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Andrea Kastner, “Portals,“ 2018

oil on panel, 8" x 8”

Opening Reception: April 06, 2019 from 2 - 4 pm (Artist will be in attendance)

Andrea Kastner is a Canadian painter whose work focuses on the overlooked corners of urban spaces and the sacred nature of rejected things. Kastner spent the summer of 2018 painting at a landfill in Haliburton, Ontario. Sitting on the side of a hill made of the accumulated decades of refuse, she painted the landscape of unwanted goods.

“I worked for 6 weeks as the Reclaim Artist in Residence at Haliburton School of Art and Design, a residency developed in conjunction with the Municipality of Dysart Landfill. Every day, I would bike up the hill from my cabin to the dump and draw, paint, photograph, and chat with the workers and the folks dropping off their carloads of refuse. The work that came out of this endeavor is called The Edges of Things, which refers to the spaces both on the edges of our urban environments and the place they hold in our consciousness, the stuff that is both “of us” but also not. The edges are also the cutting and collaging I do in my studio with these images, arranging these spaces to highlight the gaps and crevices and the fragile ways they hold together. ” – Andrea Kastner

Kastner holds a BFA from Mount Allison University (2006) and an MFA from the University of Alberta (2012). She currently teaches at Binghamton University (SUNY). In 2012 she was a finalist for the RBC Canadian Painting Competition.