Andrea Kastner is a painter whose work focuses on the overlooked corners of urban spaces and the sacred nature of rejected things. Her paintings explore a sense of dislocation within the urban landscape and an unsettled vision of constructed space. Her work has been featured in recent solo exhibitions at Hope Horn Gallery (The University of Scranton), Scott Gallery (Edmonton), Galerie McClure (Montreal) and Governor鈥檚 Island Art Fair (New York). Her paintings have also been included in group exhibitions at Art Gallery of Windsor (Windsor, ON), The Vorres Museum (Athens, Greece), Kamloops Art Gallery (Kamloops, BC), Art Gallery of Hamilton (Hamilton, ON), Esker Foundation (Calgary, AB) and The Power Plant (Toronto, ON). Kastner has been awarded grants by the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, Ontario Arts Council, British Columbia Arts Council, and Canada Council for the Arts.
Background
Kastner鈥檚 interest in our material waste has taken her to residencies at municipal landfill sites through the Haliburton School of Art and Design and Klondike Institute of Arts & Culture. She has also been an artist in residence at Vermont Studio Centre, Banff Centre for the Arts, the University of Windsor and Governor鈥檚 Island. Education
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