Lone Star Gallery presents When Here Was There by Andrea Willems

Texas based painter, Andrea Willems, conveys personal narratives with themes around loss, place, and memory through landscape, still life, and abstraction. Through vibrant colors, thin veil like layers of paint, and material, their work highlights the fleeting and the temporary. Willems earned a BFA from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago in 2004 and is a New York Studio alumni. Received the 2023 Dennis Diderot grant and 2025-2026 Contemporary at Blue Star Berlin Residency Program/Künstlerhaus Bethanien International Studio Program recipient.
Their work is a part of the Galerie Diderot collection in Orquevaux, France, the Department of Arts & Culture, San Antonio, Texas, as well as private collections across Australia, New York, and California.

Show Statement for When Here Was There :
“Home” can be a place, a shelter, a dwelling.It can just as easily be a person or a thing, a feeling of safety, of care.The arms of a loved one, friends, a pet. Home can be food, a smell. Homes can be lost, found, built, sold, destroyed, changed. Homes can be real or imagined. Homes can be welcoming or not.Exploring popular ideas of home as a symbol of comfort, belonging, family, community, and permanency.
“When Here Was There” is a sorting of nostalgia, of memories, of ideals, and daydreams relating to notions of home and where we find ourselves.

The Opening Reception is Saturday, July 12th, 2025 from 6-9pm as part of the Second Saturday Artwalk in the Lone Star Art District. 107 Lone Star Blvd, San Antonio, TX 78204. The exhibition is up through July and the gallery is open by appointment. Call Bill FitzGibbons at 210-723-3048 to view outside of the reception times.