Andrea Bersaglieri is a Los Angeles based artist known for her analytical, observational drawings, paintings and prints of seemingly banal organic specimen found in her urban/suburban environment. Over the course of her 30+ year career, the subject matter and approach has evolved and taken on more scientific methodologies in reaction to the worsening climate changes. Her work reveals the usually unnoticed roots, rocks, soil clumps, tubers, fungi, dead or decomposing forms, compressed rotting and decaying matter beneath our feet to draw on metaphors of nature/human/culture interconnectedness.

 

Andrea was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay area and came to Southern California to attend California State University, Long Beach where she earned an MFA in Drawing and Painting. She has lived, worked and studied in Florence, Rome and Philadelphia  pursuing a deeper understanding of western art history and traditional art making techniques. 

 

She teaches Drawing and Painting at Cerritos College and California State University, Long Beach and has exhibited extensively in solo and group exhibits in commercial and institutional spaces.  She recently presented her work at the International Union of Soil Scientists Centennial Conference in Florence, Italy in 2024 and had work represented at Casa Lu (CDMX) a well-established International Artist Residency as part of art week in Mexico City.