Sometimes When We Touch, 2019
Andrea Alonge is a fiber artist working in Portland, Oregon. She blends tactile textiles and craft media with elemental shapes and symbols to illustrate the connections, relationships, and exchanges between individuals and their inner and outer environments. The maximalist surfaces of her textiles highlight the complexities both hidden and on display in each of us while underlying the obsession with and glorification of work in a capitalist society. Each piece holds the dual marks of industrialism that touch every level of communication and manufacturing- the mark of the hand, and the mark of the machine.
She received her BFA from The School Of The Art Institute Of Chicago in 2013, and her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2015. Her work has been shown in group exhibitions nationally and internationally, participating in Fiberart International, 2020 China-US Innovations in Fiber Art and Technology, and From Lausanne To Beijing, and has had several solo shows in the US. Her most recent solo show, We Can Take Forever Just A Minute At A Time was held in May 2021 at From Typhoon Gallery in Seattle, WA. She recently finished a large-scale textile installation for Facebook Open Arts in Bellevue, WA.
