Andrea Way: Retrospective 1982鈥2012 January 26 through March 17, 2013

Way, Nebular Hypothesis

Andrea Way
Nebular Hypothesis
2004
Ink on paper
Courtesy of Howard and Mary McCoy

Way, Mystery Rock

Andrea Way
Mystery Rock
1990
Ink on paper
Courtesy of the Corcoran Gallery of Art

Way, Malachite

Andrea Way
Malachite
1990
Ink on paper
Courtesy of Vivienne M. Lassman

Exhibition Overview

Washington, D.C., artist Andrea Way鈥檚 surfaces are beautiful and exquisitely detailed. Her process is original and idiosyncratic, which Washington independent art critic David Tannous describes as 鈥溾he combination of two almost antithetical elements: the elaboration of a plan or code or formula, on the one hand, and the intervention of accidents and unplanned activities, on the other.鈥 Way is a master of her medium, but she knows enough to let the works breathe.