BY ISA TRAVERSO-BURGER
Czech born Andrea Dasha Reich was probably motivated from the time she was growing up in her Bauhaus style home. She studied Graphic Arts in the prestigious Bezalel in Jerusalem and later Architecture in New York. Her mother graduated in Applied Arts so it might have had a huge inherent effect on this talented artist.
It seems Dasha is inspired by everything around her life. Before committing to being a professional painter, she became a fashion designer, then a textile designer and even a color forecaster. She opened her own boutique in Manhattan called Pinola -her design for Dansk’s “Danika Rose” is a collector’s item-.
She is proud to apply her mental picture about what she sees in the world through travels in North Africa, India, China and Europe.
The Vizcaya Palace in Miami is also an inspiration for one of her artworks. She associates color and texture to feelings and characters and shapes. In her own words, She works with concentrated pigments and dyes as well as metal leaf to produce canvases of luminous complexity. The process requires alternate applications of image and resin, often as many as five layers deep. The images, which are carefully composed, are created kinetically, from drizzles, pours, spatters, and drawn lines.
Honestly, you need to see her stuff. It’s a carnival of colors, beautifully joined together to express a specific feeling. Mixed media on wood is viewed in a new and contemporary way. Through her hands and her mind, Dasha brings progressive creativity to her pieces. Her art has been exhibited worldwide in exclusive places, such as Pismo Gallery, Atmosphere Gallery, Free-Form Art Gallery, Grohe/Signature Gallery, Crossroads Contemporary in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Whistler Gallery.
