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Dear Philly Area Museums and Galleries,
By Andrea Dade
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Andrea is completing her final research at University of Pennsylvania in post-WWII American abstraction through a Critical Theory lens. She is a painter of non-representational works that are primarily large scale and an installation artist. Andrea is also a mom and enjoys traveling, both domestically and abroad, to appreciate the vegan restaurants and museums in places visited.