Andrea Cote can best be described as a multi-disciplinary artist. Cote’s performances, installations, paintings, and prints inhabit the boundary between visibility and invisibility, motion and stillness, and immersion and isolation. In the play between absence and presence, the artist wrestles with the constant dualities of the desire to be autonomous and the desire to merge. Collapsing the spaces between figure and ground, reality and illusion, and body art and figuration—the aim is not to deny these dualities, but to explore the subtle fabric that shifts between them.

Cote prints with hair cuttings and rubber castings made from parts of the body onto paper.  “I wish to defy or redefine the limitations of my corporeal body, to have a dialogue with my own image, one that expresses the anxieties and pleasures of the contemporary body,” says Cote.  “I seek the place where the simulated, the metaphorical, and the corporeal body converge.”

Cote lives in Flanders, N.Y.  She has exhibited her work both nationally and internationally at The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pa.; Islip Art Museum, N.Y.; Delaware Art Museum, Del.; The Rochester Contemporary, N.Y.; Rotunda Gallery, N.Y.; Abrons Arts Center, N.Y.; The Jack the Pelican Gallery, N.Y.; Maryland Art Place, Md.; Art Center South Florida, Fl.; The Print Center, Pa.; The Moore Gallery, Pa.; and Pan American Art Projects, Fla. Cote’s performances have been presented at The Neuberger Museum, N.Y.; The Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Pa.; The Peekskill Project, N.Y.;  Chashama, N.Y.;  Scope Art Fairs, N.Y.; The Dumbo Arts Festival, N.Y.; and Photo Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Cote’s work has been reviewed in The New York Times, The Miami Herald, The New Times, Newsday, Artinfo.com, and Wynwood Art Magazine. Cote is the recipient of a 2009 Studio Immersion Fellowship from the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop and a 2008 grant from the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund. She is represented by PanAmerican Art Projects in Miami, Fl.

In addition to Cote’s studio practice, she is committed to maintaining a dialogue with the community through writing, speaking, curating, and teaching. She co-curated the exhibition "Posing" with Joelle Jensen at the Abrons Art Center in 2007. She has organized panels and lectured as a visiting artist at several schools and universities. Cote has taught traditional and innovative visual art and movement courses for over 10 years, including: "The Body in Visual Art" at the Eugene Lang College, The New School; “Sculpture and the Body" at the University of Washington Experimental College; "Interdisciplinary Collaboration" at SUNY Purchase; and "Mideastern Dance" at the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning. She has taught as a visiting artist in the New York City public schools with The Dreamyard Project and The Brooklyn Arts Council.

The Anthony Giordano Gallery at Dowling College is dedicated to promoting contemporary, innovative, and experimental work by established, unaffiliated, and emerging artists who live and work primarily in the New York metropolitan area. The shows range from individual and thematic group exhibitions to installation projects. Gallery exhibitions emphasize current cultural and historic ideas and concerns as they impact the art world. Through its exhibitions and educational programs, the Gallery reflects, reinforces, and complements the curricular dimensions of the Visual Arts Department and addresses the cultural life and enrichment of the Dowling College community, the general public, and the Oakdale community at large.

The Anthony Giordano Gallery at Dowling College is located at 96 Biltmore Ave., at the corner of Biltmore Avenue and Idle Hour Boulevard in Oakdale, New York. Gallery hours are Wednesday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturday from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is free. For more information, please call 631.244.3016 or visit www.Dowling.edu.