Glow Big or Glow Home – 20" x 20"

I am a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based artist painting the worlds I want to see and inhabit. Through a deliberate focus on color, light, and gesture, I recontextualize commonplace motifs—people, animals, and quiet objects—to reveal underlying tensions woven into the mundane. By asking viewers to slow down, these scenes offer an encounter with a familiar world transformed, reflecting on the resilience and vibrancy found in the ordinary.

Portfolios

Close-up of a colorful, patterned textile or painting with orange leaf-like shapes outlined in black on a purple background, featuring a vertical red stripe and a blue painted string or cord tied around it.

Knit Picking

A painting of a person wearing a yellow shirt and gray shorts walking on a narrow path through a dense, vibrant green forest with sunlight filtering through the trees.

People and Places

Painting of a hare with oversized, leaf-like ears on a pink background.

Lagomorpha

Three vertical landscape paintings depicting stormy skies over fields, with dark clouds and various lighting conditions.

Earth and Sky

A painting of a bright yellow bird with black wings and a black beak, standing on a black surface with a plain, light-colored background.

Flora and Fauna

A stingray with a medical device attached to its fin, photographed from directly above against a black background.

Still Life and Death at Harvard

Portfolios

Andrea Saltzman Studio