Andrea Brice
Photography
Artist Statement
I create still life photographs in The Brown Wall Series using flowers and plant material gathered primarily from my garden in West Seattle’s High Point neighborhood. I arrange the blooms within a confined 2x2 or 2x3 corner formed by the brown walls of my home office, working with natural light from a south-facing window. I photograph each composition at three exposures and limit post-production to cropping and the removal of incidental distractions.
The work explores the interaction of light, color, and time. I am drawn to the chiaroscuro created by shifting Northwest light against the painted wall and saturated petals. Influenced by Flemish still life painting, I construct arrangements that often include insects and found objects, allowing the compositions to evolve from fresh bloom to full decay. The progression from vitality to withering is central to the series.
By isolating seasonal plant life within this restrained architectural space, I invite viewers to consider transience, abundance, and the quiet drama of ordinary materials shaped by light.
Artist Bio
Andrea Brice is a West Seattle–based painter, poet, printmaker, and engineer whose interdisciplinary background informs her still-life photography. She holds a B.A. in East Asian Studies and a B.S. in Electronics Engineering Technology, and previously worked in wireless telecommunications engineering and data science. Her visual training includes university-level painting studies and coursework at Pratt Fine Arts Center in Seattle. In poetry, she studied formal verse under Howard Nelson.
Brice’s poetry has been published by The Guardian, the Erotica Readers and Writers’ Association, and the Foundation for Sex Positive Culture. Her natural sculptures were exhibited in a West Seattle gallery in the 1990s, and her paintings were shown in the 1980s.
Although she photographed extensively during her travels, Brice began concentrating on compositional still-life photography with the development of The Brown Wall Series in 2021. In addition to this series, she is studying monoprint techniques to introduce a painterly, hand-touched dimension to her digital photographic prints.