Andrea Kowch (born in 1986) by PirateOfMangrove on DeviantArt (original) (raw)

Andrea Kowch (born 1986) is an American painter known for her magical realism paintings of the Midwest.

Kowch was born in Detroit, Michigan, and enjoyed traveling to the countryside as a child. After winning two gold medals at the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, she was represented at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in 2003 and the Diane von Furstenberg Gallery in 2004. She attended the College for Creative Studies with a double major in illustration and art education. In 2009, she graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.

Kowch was represented by the Richard J. Demato Fine Arts Gallery in 2009, after Richard Demato saw her work in the art book Spectrum 16: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art. In 2011, Southwest Art magazine named Kowch one of the art world's "21 Rising Stars Under 31." The following year, in 2012, SCOPE New York named her one of the world’s top 100 emerging artists. Kowch has had solo exhibitions at Art Basel Miami, the Grand Rapids Art Museum, the Muskegon Museum of Art, the Los Angeles Art Show, ArtPrize, and more.

Her paintings depict women and animals in stark American landscapes. She uses a small group of friends as models