In her drawings and paintings, Andrea Sole Costa exhibits an ability to bring the physical world vibrantly alive. People, animals and objects in her images are all gracefully rendered, creating a totally believable world that easily pulls the viewer in. Sole Costa credits her background in sculpture with giving her an “awareness of form in the round,” making her drawings “solid and sculptural.” She employs that solidity across an impressive variety of compositions. Whether an image is influenced by classical portraiture, life drawing or religious iconography, the sense of a realistic physical presence is always there to ground the composition. However, her work is never stiff; she imbues her figures with a spark of life that gives her creations an appealing liveliness.
Andrea Sole Costa is also a very strong colorist, able to capture the black of a cat’s fur, a multicolored shadow on a piece of clothing, or the misty aura of an overcast sky. Born in Buenos Aires, she now lives and works in Florence, Italy, where she also teaches art.