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VISUAL ARTS PICK : DREAM CHASER
SEATTLE WEEKLY, Seattle, Washington 02/06/06
While an artist's inspiration isn't necessarily evident in the work, nor necessarily relevant to an observer's experience of it, sometimes the initial creative impulse is still discernable in the final result. "Running Through the Forest" is artist Andie DeRoux's pursuit of a recurring lucid dream using kinetic zoetropic sculpture and heavy canvases of resin-coated trees. In his ongoing experimentations with sculpture, DeRoux has created a faux-stone pillar made of resin and sand containing small windows with photographs of Northwest landscapes. When it's turned on, it spins (as fast as several hundred revolutions per minute) while four strobe lights illuminate it, flickering images in an attempt to re-create the fragmented visions excavated from the artist's subconscious. But it's the trees that have the starkest, most commanding presence in the show. From a few steps back, they look like heavily varnished, high-contrast black-and-white photos. But on closer inspection, over-layers of paint and sumi ink emerge. In Follow and Encounter, DeRoux's artifice is more obvious, while Departure and Moment, the most ethereal of the four, most artfully achieve the blend of nature and interpretation created by the artist's involved process. DeRoux begins with photos he took in Washington Park Arboretum, where he played as a child. (The 36-year-old painter and sculptor grew up in Madison Park.) He lays the image down on a panel prepared with acrylic, watercolor, and dry pigment. He peels back the photo, leaving the dark impression, which he then embellishes or removes. Between the layers, DeRoux adds a coat of tinted epoxy resin, creating depth of field. The ultimate effect is that the trees are captured in this artificial substance, like an artifact of nature—or, indeed, a dream caught in amber.
-Sue Peters

TABLET GALLERY PICK: SACRED SPACES/ARTIFICIAL INCLUSION
TABLET NEWSPAPER, Seattle, Washington 04/02
This new installation by Andie DeRoux investigates the delicate and daunting relationship between technology and religion in contemporary society. DeRoux has cast a variety of saintly icons and images and has set them against a background of integrated circuit boards. The installation also incorporates corresponding digital video images and audio loops.
-Karla Esquivel

TWO SHOWS THAT FIND POETRY IN MOTION
THE SEATTLE TIMES visual arts ticket, p.26 Seattle, Washington 12/17/98
...THE SPACE BETWEEN: 15 wall sculptures surrounding kinetic pieces. The work of Andie DeRoux, the static images use rubber, foam, fiberglass and resin. In their middle, 7-foot sculptures incorporate mirrors and strobe lights, while belt-driven moters spin them at 800 rpm. All use heavy tubing, cut and sliced for shape and texture. But in motion they become transformed: into strange, fresh, images that hang-quivering-in the air. DeRoux has made and shown kinetic work before. But this show(inspired by Stephen Hawk's 1995 piece MANDALA) is the cumulation of three years' experimentation. On Saturday last, It drew even Seahawks's fans; a better (free) shot of Christmas magic is hard to find.
-Cynthia Rose

LUX CAFE
SEATTLE WEEKLY visual arts, p.58 Seattle Washington 05/16/99
A set of three-dimensional cast resin wall panels and a vibrant, glowing kinetic sculpture by Andie DeRoux, whose works have shown in local dance clubs. The sculpture, made of texture-rich rubber, plastic, foam and resins, is illuminated by photostrobic lighting, and spins at a rate of 800 rotations per minute. Repeatedly projecting bits and pieces of various images at once, the work is delightfully hypnotic, like something out of a cyberpunk fantasy.
-Soyon Im

The Hit List: Visual Arts
SEATTLE WEEKLY visual arts, p.73 Seattle, Washington 12/10/98
If Anything can shake you out of your early winter doldrums, It would be Andie DeRoux's kinetic sculptures. Spinning at 800 rotations per minute, the sculptures, some of which are more than 7 feet tall, throb and vibrate inside their glass cases. Displayed in a dark room and illuminated by photostobic lighting, the sculptures are bright and hypnotic, repeatedly projecting bits and pieces of various images at once. DeRoux's series, titled :"The Space Between" acts like an energy source, electrifying the senses and pushing the body to move. Some of the work smells (literally), but thats part of the charm. DeRoux, who used to make fiberglass sailboards uses some of the same enduring materials for his sculptures, such as rubber, plastic, foam, resins, and polymers. As a result, there's a strong industrial whiff in the gallery. Oddly enough, it draws viewers in like perfume and seduces them.
-Soyon Im