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Adela Andea (born 1976) is a Romanian American contemporary artist renowned for her innovative complex light installations and multimedia artworks. Based in Texas, United States, Andea’s creations often explore themes of technology, environments, natural phenomena, and the interplay between light, space and viewer interaction.

Early life and education
Born in Romania, Adela Andea immigrated to the United States in the late 1990s. She obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from the University of Houston and later a Master of Fine Arts in New Media from University of North Texas. Andea’s academic pursuits in digital media and fine arts have significantly shaped her artistic methodologies, particularly her integration of modern technology with organic motifs, resulting in futuristic forms and environments.

Work


Adela Andea’s work is primarily characterized by the use of LED lights, CCFL, computer parts, various plastics, and electronic components to craft large-scale light installations that invite viewer interaction.

Her first major installation was "The Green Cyberweb", in 2009, at Lawndale Art Center in Houston, Texas. Since then, Adela Andea’s art installations have been showcased in several prestigious national and international art museums and venues, including the Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Art League Houston , Blue Star Contemporary Art Center , Centre for International Light Art  , McKinney Avenue Contemporary  , Museum of Geometric and MADI Art , Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts, The Grace Museum , Women & Their Work and Zebra 3 (Crystal Palace). She is a collaborating artist for the Meow Wolf Houston location.

Adela Andea's artworks are in the permanent collection of the Centre for International Light Art in Unna, Germany, the world's only museum which is exclusively dedicated to the collection and presentation of light art . Her artworks are part of numerous public and private permanent collections, like "Great Barrier Reef" installation at the Drewery Place, the first high-rise tower in midtown Houston, and the "Primordial Garden" installation, part the Public Art Collection of the Texas Tech University , Lubbock, Texas, ranked nationally as a top-10 Outdoor Museum.

Style and Themes


The hallmark of Andea's style is her ability to merge organic forms with technological components, creating dazzling, immersive environments. At the core of her artistic ideas lies the social responsibility for research that can ensure technological progress and ecological balance. Inspired by “nature, natural versus artificial concepts; environmental issues and technological advances”, the artist aspires to blend aesthetically the romantic notion of nature with the manmade aesthetic.

Critics have noted her unique placement within the spectrum of light and installation art, drawing comparisons to luminaries such as James Turrell and Dan Flavin. Art historians have noted her approach to technology and nature via the language of light, attributing the term of "Gynolux" to the artist.