Harvest Moon, Oil on Panel, 36 x 36 x 3

Aondrea Maynard was born in Mount Pleasant, Utah and grew up in Utah and Idaho, the fifth of nine children. Her childhood was spent happily playing along river beds and sitting among trees. Longing for the excitement of a city, she moved to San Francisco. She traveled through Europe and Asia and spent some time living in Paris, France. Aondrea studied painting, art history, sculpture and French at Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill and then painting and textile design in Berkeley.

Aondrea's September exhibition in the gallery entitled Luminous Shadow takes us again one step further in the development of her work. Luminous Shadow is more that a collection of paintings; it is the hushed atmosphere arrived at in a single moment at the cusp between day and evening. Entire paintings are informed by the smallest shard of red or golden light. The surfaces that are like still water lit by moonlight. Edges are diffused, inky blacks bleed into subtle grays, aqua floats beneath the upper layers of forest green.

At this point in her career, Maynard has made her presence known in the San Francisco art scene. Her dedication to process and refinement has developed her into an accomplished painter who offers a unique vision of the internal landscape. As always, her lush layerings and elegant surfaces make each painting an experience not easily forgotten.