VEZNA ANDREWS

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Vezna is truly carrying on Ellie Mayer's legacy; she is her granddaughter. Her first solo show since becoming a mother, this exhibition features her paintings over the past five years as well as her works on paper — the visual component of an interdisciplinary art collab project with two brilliant composers; Cornelius Dufallo and Guy Barash.

Vezna (b.1971) grew up in New York City where she studied life drawing and painting at The School of Visual Arts and with Aaron Kurzen, who taught her the methods of Henri Matisse passed down through his teachers at the Art Students’ League in New York in the 40’s; Cameron Booth, Vaclav Vytlacil and Hans Hoffman. Vezna went to RISD on scholarship, with a major in film and minor in painting, graduating in 1992. Her senior film won the Student Academy Award for Best Experimental Film on the East Coast, launching a career directing music videos and award-winning promos and commercials for Nick at Nite’s TV Land, Miller Lite, Sprite and the like. In the late-nineties she returned to her roots in painting, venturing into non-figurative work for the first time while studying Sogetsu Ikebana with Judith Setsuko Hata. A move to Los Angeles in 2002 led to representation with George Billis Gallery LA. Vezna’s paintings have also exhibited at Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) Sales Gallery, The San Luis Obispo Museum of Art (SLOMA) The Bolinas Museum, Terrance Rogers Fine Art, Lauren Clark Fine Art and others. Her work is commissioned and collected globally. Vezna is also a writer, her debut novel One with the Waves was published by Santa Monica Press in May of 2023 and she is currently working on her second. She lives (and surfs) with her family in Manhattan Beach, California.