Andrea Paipa was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
   In 1989 she moved to California where she studied 
   photography with Laura Parker , Peter Reiss and 
   Andrew Freeman.

   Since then she has participated in several art shows 
   and her work has been exhibited worldwide, including 
   the Intrograz Festival in Austria.

   While living in London(98-2002) she studied at the 
   Westminster College with photographer Sam Appleby, 
   and her work was included in the Transbarroso 
   catalogue, published in that city in 2002.

   Since May 2003 she lives in DC where she is working 
   with found vintage pictures and written texts in 
   collaboration with other artists.

G.Ferrand

Artist Statement

   "Every picture is accurate. None of them is the truth"
                                                                               R. Avedon

   Wandering so much, I sometimes feared becoming a 
   ghost, with no roots, drifting from place to place. This 
   lightness was unbearable at times. Therefore my 
   photos: I needed new anchors.

   Photography for me is a search for myself, others and 
   the universes we create. I want to provoke a dance 
   between what we see, what we hear and what we say;
   to create a small world around "impossible" 
   questions: time, memory, sexuality, loss, the genesis 
   of a subject. Many of my works include texts, written 
   or spoken.

   Pictures like mirrors? Windows to the soul? Tips of 
   icebergs whose bodies are ourselves?

   I was there once. Not anymore. In between: what is 
   lost and what is not. Words and silence.

   Images are only faithful to themselves. 

   They exist for everyone to take in.
                                                                                        A.P.
                     

Résumé


   Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina 

   MA in Psychology, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
 
   Studied photography with Laura Parker and Peter Reiss 
   at UCLA and with Andrew Freeman at Otis Parson's 
   School of Art, Los Angeles, CA, 1990-93 And with Sam 
   Appleby at the Westminster College, London,2001-02

   Group Shows

   - Focus, Art Store, DC, June 2006.

  - Anonimo, Sinonimo, Antonimo, Centro Cultural Recoleta, 
       Buenos Aires, August 2004.

  - London Biennale 2004, Gallery 32, London, 2004.

   - Images & Origins II: Reflections of Women 
      Photographers, Los Angeles City Hall, Los Angeles 1999 
 
   - Annual Group Show , Los Angeles Photography Center, 
      Los Angeles 1991 

   - Salón Apertura, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, 
      Buenos Aires 1992 

   - Don't Get Me Wrong, Floyd Studio, Los Angeles 
      1993 

   - Papel Arte, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires

   - Women Focus on Women, The Learning Alliance, 
      New York 1997 

   - Portfolio 97, Time Life Building, New York 1997 
      
   - Plain Brown Wrapper, an Exhibition of Pornographic