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About Andrea Sherrill

Baltimore City

Andrea Sherrill Evans (she/her) is an Arizona-born, Baltimore-based artist and educator whose work explores interconnection and resilience within the more-than-human world. Interweaving ideas and materiality, her drawings respond to local ecosystems, seasonal cycles, and changing landscapes. Evans has a long-standing interest in historical drawing mediums and processes, which guides her use of materials ranging from silverpoint and watercolor to handmade inks, charcoal, and… more

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Invasive

Invasive documents the transformed – and transforming – landscape of the mid-Atlantic, investigating the ways in which “Nature” and the “natural” shift under the shadow of the Anthropocene.  The 50 postcard-sized drawings of Invasive depict monumental masses of invasive plants blanketing the native landscape along highways in Maryland, Virginia, Delaware, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey.  While perspective and point of view shift across the series of drawings, they are united through linear groupings that connect different locations and moments in time.
  • Invasive #21, 34, 31, & 32
    Invasive #21, 34, 31, & 32
    silverpoint on prepared paper, each 4.25" x 6", 2016-18
  • Invasive #36, 39, 33, & 30
    Invasive #36, 39, 33, & 30
    silverpoint on prepared paper, each 4.25" x 6", 2016-18
  • Invasive #6
    Invasive #6
    silverpoint on prepared paper, 4.25" x 6", 2016
  • Invasive #43, 46, 38, 35, & 14
    Invasive #43, 46, 38, 35, & 14
    silverpoint on prepared paper, 4.25" x 6" each, 2016-18
  • Invasive #26, 13, 12, 18, & 19
    Invasive #26, 13, 12, 18, & 19
    silverpoint on prepared paper, 4.25" x 6" each, 2016-18
  • Invasive #16, 24, 47, 49, & 48
    Invasive #16, 24, 47, 49, & 48
    silverpoint on prepared paper, 4.25" x 6" each, 2016-18
  • Invasive #43
    Invasive #43
    silverpoint on prepared paper, 4.25" x 6", 2018
  • Invasive #17, 20, 10, 1, & 2
    Invasive #17, 20, 10, 1, & 2
    silverpoint on prepared paper, 4.25" x 6" each, 2016-18
  • Invasive #11, 23, 22, & 37
    Invasive #11, 23, 22, & 37
    silverpoint on prepared paper, 4.25" x 6" each, 2016-18
  • Invasive #28, 42, 25, 29, & 50
    Invasive #28, 42, 25, 29, & 50
    silverpoint on prepared paper, 4.25" x 6" each, 2016-18
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    • Creeper

    This body of work consists of a series of silverpoint drawings investigating the rampant growth of invasive vines along roadsides and highways throughout the mid-Atlantic.  Due to the nature of silverpoint, a drawing technique dating back to the early Renaissance which uses a piece of silver as a mark-making tool, these drawings vary in temperature and tonal range based on the amount of tarnishing that has taken place in the life of the drawing.
    • Window #1
      Window #1
      Window #1, silverpoint on prepared paper, 14" x 11", 2019.
    • Window #2
      Window #2
      Window #2, silverpoint on prepared paper, 14" x 11", 2019.
    • Window #3
      Window #3
      Window #3, silverpoint on prepared paper, 14" x 11", 2019.
    • Thicket
      Thicket
      silverpoint on prepared paper, 11.5” x 10.75”, 2017.
    • Bosk
      Bosk
      silverpoint on prepared paper, 6" x 6", 2018
    • Overgrowth
      Overgrowth
      silverpoint on prepared paper, 4.25" x 6", 2016
    • Rampant
      Rampant
      silverpoint on prepared paper, 4.25" x 6", 2016
    • Shroud
      Shroud
      silverpoint on prepared paper, 4.25" x 6", 2016
    • Copse
      Copse
      silverpoint on prepared paper, 6" x 4.25", 2016
    • Intertwined
      Intertwined
      silverpoint on prepared paper, 6" x 4.25", 2016
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    • Garment for Growth & Portable Plant Studies

    The Garment for Growth and Portable Plant Studies feature an ongoing series of handmade garments and other appropriated wearable structures designed to support and sustain plant life while maintaining maximum portability.  These works suggest hypothetical methods for a more symbiotic and intimate relationship between humans and nature. 


    • Garment for Growth
      Garment for Growth
      Handmade garment (felt, plastic, brass, thread) with potting soil and lettuce, dimensions variable, 2017 (detail shot). Photo documentation of sculptural/performance work
    • Garment for Growth
      Garment for Growth
      Handmade garment (felt, plastic, brass, thread) with potting soil and lettuce, dimensions variable, 2017. Photo documentation of sculptural/performance work
    • Garment for Growth Drawing (Study)
      Garment for Growth Drawing (Study)
      Garment for Growth (Study), silverpoint and gouache on prepared paper, 14" x 11", 2019.
    • Portable Plant Study #1 (Persea americana)
      Portable Plant Study #1 (Persea americana)
      silverpoint and gouache on prepared paper, 14" x 11", 2015
    • Portable Plant Study #2 (Persea americana)
      Portable Plant Study #2 (Persea americana)
      silverpoint and gouache on prepared paper, 14" x 11", 2015
    • Portable Plant Study #3 (Dracaena fragrans Massangeana)
      Portable Plant Study #3 (Dracaena fragrans "Massangeana")
      silverpoint and gouache on prepared paper, 14" x 11", 2015
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    • Façade Series

    The watercolor Façade Series examines elements of nature that eke out a living among the concrete and asphalt in our increasingly expanding urban spaces.  Their subjects range from massive vines of English ivy covering a factory building to tiny clumps of crabgrass sprouting up between the cracks of a sidewalk, each suggesting the architectural structures within the city solely through the blanket of vegetation that envelops them.  
    • Factory, Remington
      Factory, Remington
      watercolor on paper, 6" x 6", 2016
    • Sidewalk, Charles North
      Sidewalk, Charles North
      watercolor on paper, 6" x 6", 2016
    • Row House, Hampden
      Row House, Hampden
      watercolor on paper, 6" x 6", 2016
    • Row House, Remington
      Row House, Remington
      watercolor on paper, 6" x 6", 2016
    • Row House, Old Town
      Row House, Old Town
      watercolor on paper, 6" x 6", 2017
    • Row House, Lauraville
      Row House, Lauraville
      watercolor on paper, 6" x 6", 2017.
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    • Firewood

    This series of 50 life-size watercolor drawings render pieces of split firewood as they have been carefully, though not always successfully, reassembled. 

    • Firewood #43
      Firewood #43
      watercolor on paper, 10.25" x 10.25", 2014
    • Firewood #40
      Firewood #40
      watercolor on paper, 10.25" x 10.25", 2014
    • Firewood #37
      Firewood #37
      "Firewood #37", watercolor on paper, 10.25" x 10.25", 2014
    • Firewood #36
      Firewood #36
      watercolor on paper, 10.25" x 10.25", 2014
    • Firewood #32
      Firewood #32
      watercolor on paper, 10.25" x 10.25", 2014
    • Firewood #27
      Firewood #27
      watercolor on paper, 10.25" x 10.25", 2014
    • Firewood #23
      Firewood #23
      watercolor on paper, 10.25" x 10.25", 2014
    • Firewood #14
      Firewood #14
      watercolor on paper, 10.25" x 10.25", 2014
    • Firewood #5
      Firewood #5
      watercolor on paper, 10.25" x 10.25", 2013
    • Firewood #1-50
      Firewood #1-50
      watercolor on prepared paper, each 10.25" x 10.25", 2013-15
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    • Marker Series

    The Marker drawings investigate the human mark on the landscape and the wild places that are sought in order to reestablish a connection with the natural world.  These trail markers are a rupture in an otherwise seemingly untouched landscape, hinting towards a complex exchange between the natural and built world.
    • Marker #1
      Marker #1
      silverpoint and acrylic on prepared paper, 29.5" x 20", 2012
    • Marker #4
      Marker #4
      silverpoint and acrylic on prepared paper, 29.5" x 31", 2012
    • Marker #5
      Marker #5
      silverpoint and acrylic on prepared paper, 29.5" x 36", 2013
    • Marker #2
      Marker #2
      silverpoint and acrylic on prepared paper, 29.5" x 33", 2012
    • Marker #2 (detail)
      Marker #2 (detail)
      silverpoint and acrylic on prepared paper, 29.5" x 33", 2012
    • Marker #3
      Marker #3
      silverpoint and walnut ink on prepared paper, 29.5" x 23", 2012
    • Marker #6
      Marker #6
      silverpoint and acrylic on prepared paper, 29.5" x 23", 2013
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    • Wilderness Studies

    Woven through the Wilderness Studies is the aim to complicate the idea of nature and the often didactic division between the human and the natural world.  The use of drawing as a primary medium recalls the picturesque travel sketches of the Romantic painters, but their subject of sublime scenery with mythic proportions is transposed onto new forms of nature that reveal the active, and irreversible, impact of the human hand.  
    • Plaid Shirt #5
      Plaid Shirt #5
      silverpoint and watercolor on prepared paper, 14" x 11", 2011
    • Plaid Shirt #4
      Plaid Shirt #4
      silverpoint and watercolor on prepared paper, 14" x 11", 2011
    • Plaid Shirt #3
      Plaid Shirt #3
      silverpoint and watercolor on prepared paper, 14" x 11", 2011
    • Plaid Shirt #2
      Plaid Shirt #2
      silverpoint and watercolor on prepared paper, 14" x 11", 2010
    • Plaid Shirt #1
      Plaid Shirt #1
      silverpoint and watercolor on prepared paper, 14" x 11", 2010
    • Moose Bed #2
      Moose Bed #2
      silverpoint and watercolor on prepared paper, 11" x 11", 2010
    • Moose Bed #1
      Moose Bed #1
      silverpoint and watercolor on prepared paper, 11" x 11", 2009
    • Untitled (Birch Trees)
      Untitled (Birch Trees)
      silverpoint on prepared paper, 34" x 42", 2010.
    • The Tree #2
      The Tree #2
      silverpoint and watercolor on prepared paper, 28.75" x 23.25", 2011.
    • The Tree #1
      The Tree #1
      silverpoint and watercolor on prepared paper, 28.75" x 23.25, 2011
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    • Sculptural & Performative Works

    These related sculptural and performative pieces reexamine the habitual ways that we connect to and consume the natural world.  Fragmented pieces of wood severed from their environment are carefully mended and pieced back together with varying levels of success.  While these gestures are bound to fail, they also suggest the possibility of transformation and renewal. 

    • Siblings
      Siblings
      birch and hand-knit wool, dimensions variable, 2011.
    • Coppice
      Coppice
      birch firewood and mixed media, dimensions variable, 2012
    • Woodlot
      Woodlot
      Performance/installation with 1/2 cord firewood and string, 2013. Documentation from "8-Hour Projects: Performativity" at Allegheny College, Meadville, PA
    • Woodlot
      Woodlot
      Performance/installation with 1/2 cord firewood and string, 2013. Documentation from "8-Hour Projects: Performativity" at Allegheny College, Meadville, PA
    • Woodlot
      Woodlot
      Performance/installation with 1/2 cord firewood and string, 2013. Documentation from "8-Hour Projects: Performativity" at Allegheny College, Meadville, PA
    • Woodlot
      Woodlot
      Performance/installation with 1/2 cord firewood and string, 2013. Documentation from "8-Hour Projects: Performativity" at Allegheny College, Meadville, PA
    • Woodlot
      Woodlot
      Performance/installation with 1/2 cord firewood and string, 2013. Documentation from "8-Hour Projects: Performativity" at Allegheny College, Meadville, PA
    • Woodlot
      Woodlot
      Performance/installation with 1/2 cord firewood and string, 2013. Documentation from "8-Hour Projects: Performativity" at Allegheny College, Meadville, PA
    • Making Amends
      Making Amends
      1 hour performance with wood and wool, 2011 Part of "Time Body Space Objects" at Proof Gallery, Boston, MA
    • Making Amends
      Making Amends
      1 hour performance with wood and wool, 2011 Part of "Time Body Space Objects" at Proof Gallery, Boston, MA
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    • Flora

    Interweaving ideas and materiality, the drawings in Flora explore ecological systems, seasonal cycles, and changing landscapes.  This work is part of a larger practice of developing a relationship with a place by working with the abundance of its plant life.  Using botanical materials carefully foraged in my backyard and neighborhood, along hikes and while traveling, I fabricate inks, watercolors, charcoal, and paper that carry a specificity of location and season.  Experimental studies and tests document an investigation of each material’s characteristics, while intricate renderings of dense vegetation and botanical vignettes reflect and respond to the places of their origin.  Together, these drawings speak to the work of tending to and rebuilding a relationship with the more-than-human world while grappling with and grieving our uncertain future.

    • Flora: Amherst, VA #1
      Flora: Amherst, VA #1

      Handmade charcoal and goldenrod ink (made from fallen branches, grape vine, & goldenrod flowers foraged in Amherst, VA) on paper

      10.25" x 6.5"

      2021

    • Flora: Baltimore #1
      Flora: Baltimore #1

      Handmade charcoal & acorn cap ink (made from fallen branches & acorns foraged in Baltimore City) on paper

      21" x 21"

      2020

    • Flora: Baltimore #2
      Flora: Baltimore #2

      Handmade charcoal & acorn cap ink (made from fallen branches & acorns foraged in Baltimore City) on paper

      22" x 22"

      2020

    • Flora: Baltimore #5
      Flora: Baltimore #5

      Handmade charcoal & acorn cap ink (made from fallen branches & acorns foraged in Baltimore City) on paper

      20.75" x 20.75"

      2020

    • Flora: Baltimore #6
      Flora: Baltimore #6

      Handmade charcoal and acorn cap ink (made from fallen branches, grape vine, & acorns foraged in Baltimore City) on paper

      44" x 30"

      2021

    • Flora: Baltimore #7
      Flora: Baltimore #7

      Handmade charcoal and acorn cap ink (made from fallen branches, grape vine, & acorns foraged in Baltimore City & County) on paper

      44" x 30"

      2021

    • Flora: Amherst, VA #2
      Flora: Amherst, VA #2

      Handmade charcoal and acorn ink (made from fallen branches, grape vine, & acorns foraged in Amherst, VA) on paper

      10.125" x 6.5"

      2021

    • Flora: Amherst, VA #3
      Flora: Amherst, VA #3

      Handmade charcoal and acorn ink (made from fallen branches, grape vine, & acorns foraged in Amherst, VA) on paper

      10.375" x 6.5"

      2021

    • Flora: Amherst, VA #4
      Flora: Amherst, VA #4

      Handmade charcoal made from fallen branches and grape vine with inks made from Osage orange wood, acorns, and pine cones foraged in Amherst, VA on paper

      44” x 30”

      2022

    • Flora: North Adams, MA #1
      Flora: North Adams, MA #1

      Handmade charcoal from fallen branches & inks made from Northern white cedar seedcones, Eastern hemlock needles, staghorn sumac leaves & drupes, red pine cones, and honey locust seed pods foraged in North Adams, MA, on paper

      10.25” x 7”

      2022

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