ANDREA HOOGE 

SAFE INDOORS

solo exhibition

March 22nd - April 13th, 2025

Opening Reception: First Friday, April 4th, 2025 ​

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We can’t begin to imagine what it's like right now living in Altadena, the Palisades, Asheville, or any other city devastated by recent climate disasters. It’s awful. As we watch from our televisions, or at best, contribute to relief efforts, it can be easy to forget how we are all affected by climate change. For us in the mid-Atlantic, fall and spring are basically a blip, replaced by longer, hotter, smellier summers. For Andrea Hooge, she’s missing out on sharing one of her favorite childhood memories with her son.

 

“I went camping a lot as a kid and those were always such special times. With increasing frequency, forest fires have been a new part of our summers in British Columbia, and it has changed what camping  means. Most symbolically for me is the loss of the ability to have a campfire in the summer as they are often banned. These were always the centrepoint of the evening, the way we ended our days, gathered around the fire roasting marshmallows and staring at the flames.” - Andrea Hooge 

 

Andrea’s solo debut SAFE INDOORS processes this small but tender loss through impeccable scratchboard cutouts. Tiny etched markings on black panels that are scroll cut, layered, and cleanly collaged. Like peering in the windows of a dollhouse, every inch of Andrea’s dimensional shadowboxes are meticulous and totally composed. They serve as refuge for the owlets, kits, cubs, and fawns nestled within. The three shadowboxes are accompanied by six wall-hanging sculptures, stand-alones that look like darling little dolls. Innocent and nostalgic, they are cared for, if not sheltered, and SAFE INDOORS—sweetly unaware of how different their lives are from generations before. 

 

Andrea Hooge (b. 1979) is based in Vancouver, BC and studied Visual Arts and Psychology at the University of the Fraser Valley. On a career path to art therapy, she fell in love with printmaking, specifically etching and linocut, which led her to discover scratchboard, now her preferred medium. Andrea began showing with Arch Enemy Arts last year after submitting to the 2024 Spotlight Showcase. Though she’s exhibited widely around Vancouver, SAFE INDOORS is her first solo feature in the States. 

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SAFE INDOORS will be on view from March 22nd - April 20th, 2025
Sold works will begin to ship the week starting April 6th, unless other rush shipping arrangements have been made. 

Items marked with a red dot have already been sold.

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