Artist Statement
My works draw attention to and communicate about historical and contemporary political events that I have a strong personal connection to like immigration, civil war, nationalistic mythologies, and climate change. I seek to create work that is visually pleasing and attractive to draw more attention to my political message. Often, I employ irony and sarcasm to make my message more approachable and poignant.
My art is the result of extensive research into the subject matter it represents. Data, like sea level rise projections or migration routes, and photographs from the research are frequently referenced in the paintings themselves.
As a self-taught painter, my paintings are influenced by what I grew up seeing around me in Italy in the 1980s and 1990s: Roman and Renaissance art; anarchist and communist graffiti, posters and printed propaganda. My approach to painting is a mix of old and new; gold leaf is side by side with screen printing, acrylic paint, markers, collage and neon colors.
My works draw attention to and communicate about historical and contemporary political events that I have a strong personal connection to like immigration, civil war, nationalistic mythologies, and climate change. I seek to create work that is visually pleasing and attractive to draw more attention to my political message. Often, I employ irony and sarcasm to make my message more approachable and poignant.
My art is the result of extensive research into the subject matter it represents. Data, like sea level rise projections or migration routes, and photographs from the research are frequently referenced in the paintings themselves.
As a self-taught painter, my paintings are influenced by what I grew up seeing around me in Italy in the 1980s and 1990s: Roman and Renaissance art; anarchist and communist graffiti, posters and printed propaganda. My approach to painting is a mix of old and new; gold leaf is side by side with screen printing, acrylic paint, markers, collage and neon colors.
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RESUME:
solo and duo exhibitions: 2019
2018
group exhibitions: 2019
2016
public/community art: 2019
2019 - present
2019
2017
2016
awards: 2020
2018
2018 - present
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BIO:
ANDREA LIMAURO (b. Rome, Italy - lives in Silver Spring, MD) is a visual artist and city planner whose work explores issues of migration and migrant identity, nationalistic narratives, gun violence, climate change and other social topics. Limauro’s work has been exhibited at the Art Museum of the Americas, IA&A Hillyer, Touchstone Gallery, the Annapolis Maritime Museum, and the Arlington Art Center. Limauro's paintings have been featured in the Washington Project for the Arts annual auctions (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020), online auctions on Paddle8, art publications in the USA, UK, and Italy and have been reviewed by the Washington Post and the Washington City Paper. Limauro is the exhibitions curator for the NoMa Lobby Project in Washington, DC. Limauro serves as a Board Member of the non-profit art advocacy Washington Project for the Arts which has been advocating for the arts and artists in the DC metropolitan region since 1975. . Limauro holds a BA in Politics and Sociology from Essex University, UK, a Graduate Diploma in International Development from the University of Padua, Italy and a Masters Degree in Urban Planning and Policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago. 
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