For those familiar with her work, they will recognize the spiritual intent in artist Andrea Maguire’s paintings.
Her own search has taken her to many places off the beaten track, among them, mystical Tibet, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Thailand, and Japan.
The enigmatic quality of the figural paintings is appropriate in light of Maguire’s meditative approach. Her forms and figures are not symbols of the unconscious but rather stripped down, intensified visual facts firmly based in sensation. The viewer stands before the figure and feels the posture and movement of it, becoming with the artist a ‘vessel to embrace raw energy’ rather than a thinking subject.