About

Andreea Alunei is a Romanian-born visual artist and educator working in narrative figuration. Her mixed-media paintings and drawings, often on paper and silk, reinterpret Christian iconography and Eastern European mythology through the visual language of children’s book illustration, drawing on the intimacy and detail of medieval illuminated manuscripts to build a personal mythology that reclaims inherited narratives. With vivid color and delicate surfaces, she constructs symbolic, emotionally charged works as part of an ongoing investigation into mortality, belief, transformation, and the human condition in its moments of tension and contradiction.

Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, with recent exhibitions at Fields Projects Gallery (New York), Manifest Gallery (Cincinnati), New House Art Space (Guildford, UK), and Women’s Work.Art (Poughkeepsie, NY) as part of Invoke & Imbibe—an exhibition highlighted in Hyperallergic’s “10 Art Shows to See in Upstate New York.” She was selected as one of ten North American artists in the Acts of Creation competition juried by curator Hettie Judah, and is a recipient of the Bloomington Arts Commission Artistic Advancement Grant and the College Arts & Humanities Institute Capstone Research Award.