“Smitten” (2024)… My 1st sculpture! 🌵 💡
Carved + felted completely by hand, w/o the use of power tools 💪
Raw wool fibers, discarded foam, brass, marble & electrical components ⚡️ 74” H x 44” W x 12” D
Swipe for process & absolute dorkiness 🙋🏻♀️
Lighting up the room while putting a smile on your face. Hope you like it 🤗
Thanks to @pedrowazzan & @allseeingmedia for the 📸
🧶 Happy to announce that I was selected into “Excellence in Fibers IX” ✨ & featured as the cover image 🐑 Thank you @fiberartnow 🧵 What an honor! Winter 2024 issue is out now
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Beyond thrilled for this awesome honor! 💥
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Gigantic thanks to @sterbenzstyle for letting me know this was happening & also to the legendary @bergdorfs Bergdorf Goodman for taking a chance on a totally new designer with a different approach to fashion!
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Ultra special shoutout to my beautiful mom who took a 3 hr bus ride just to see this in person & take some pics!
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This sounds like an Oscars speech 🤣
Introducing “Iris”, part I of the Choreographic Concerto, a special collaboration for @nwsymphony & @miamicityballet . Choreographed by @claudiaschreier with original score composed by @sarahkirklandsnider
It was a celestial dream ✨ Costume designs by me & beautiful lighting design by @lkritzeck 🙌
A deep thank you to @lourdeslopezarts for thinking of me for this cool project & to @gonzalogarcia79 for ushering it forward. 🙏 Special shoutout to @bakehouseartcomplex for my studio space that was well used during this endeavor 🌪️
Slides 4-5 📸 by @alexmarkow courtesy of NWS
New World Symphony and dancers from Miami City Ballet premiere a new choreographic concerto, the brainchild of 10 of the most exciting choreographers and composers working today. Plus, don't miss a moving tribute to choreographer and director Jerome Robbins, whose West Side Story, Gypsy and Fiddler on the Roof transformed American musical theater. April 17 to 19 at the New World Center—get your tickets at nws.edu
📣 In LA for Frieze? 🫧 My “Bubble Lamp 1” opens @rhett.baruch.gallery this Saturday, Feb 28th! Truly honored to be part of this fantastic group of international artists 🙌 for Glass Half Full thru April
Hand-felted wool fibers, foam, glass
10w x 7d x 13.5h in
Swing by The Apartment to see all the gorgeous works displayed in real life, not just a white cube gallery!
Debuting in “Blurred Lines”, opening this Saturday, “Let Me Sow Love” exemplifies Andrea Spiridonakos’s analog resistance to the digital. The live-edge Cuban mahogany waterfall bench—enveloped in bespoke felted wool, alpaca thread, and glass beading—operates between the domestic and the wild. In this work, asymmetry, irregularity, and a sense of perpetual motion destabilize functional expectations. This piece offers a subtle surreal encounter that foregrounds touch, presence, and material tension.
Andrea Spiridonakos (b. Winsted, CT) is a multidisciplinary artist working across fiber art, sculpture, and experimental design. Informed by a prior career as a professional ballerina and a fashion design education from NYC’s FIT. Her work has been exhibited internationally at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris in collaboration with Métiers d’Arts CHANEL, and nationally at institutions including the Newport Art Museum, Coral Gables Museum, and the Miami Design District. Her pieces are held in the permanent collection of the deYoung Museum and in private collections across the U.S. Spiridonakos is currently a resident at the @bakehouseartcomplex
The hand-felted Mermaid Tail Coat.
Shot by the talented @tongomes__
Worn by the stunning @bbzaria
Thanks to @purplehazemagazine@skep360@dhunia
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Each coat had its own serial number that, when typed into my website, takes you to a private page dedicated to the making of that specific coat. How many hours it took to felt (usually 90+!), the names of the women who worked on it & detailed behind the scenes content of that coat being made. Originally sold @bergdorfs & featured in their legendary Holiday Windows.
Wow, thank you to @cultured_mag for mentioning my loveseat “When The Oceans Drank Atlantis” as one of the memorable pieces @collectiblefair this year! @spaceprincejulio I appreciate you 🧶 🧜♀️ 🫧
Honored to be selected to take part in the “Fashion” section @collectiblefair in NYC! 🧶 “When The Oceans Drank Atlantis” If you’re in town September 4 – 7th, come by! 🧜♀️
Totally 1 of a kind. 100s of hours of work to make this handmade ✋ piece. Loosely derived from my Mermaid Tail Coat which sold @bergdorfs and was featured in their holiday window display a few years ago.
Photos @pedrowazzan
Leaf Chair 01. Travelers🌴 (2024)
Steel
28” x 51” x 28”
Forged by hand to create a contrast of delicacy and strength. With this piece, I try to represent nature in a surreal, unnerving way.
