Andrea Laue Mixed Media Art

09/28/2025

World Postcard Day is Wednesday, Oct 1. To celebrate, I’m putting my unframed, hand-embroidered postcards on sale. All are 15% off in my online store (see link in profile). Use code WPD at checkout. The postcards featured here and several more are available now. .
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12/16/2024

Solstice Sale! I’m offering $50 off on all unframed, hand-embroidered postcards at my online shop (see link in bio). These make great holiday gifts! Find the cards featured here and several more at my store.
Curious but want to learn more about how I make the postcards? I have a blog post for that (see link in bio)!
Sale runs through 5 PM PST on Wednesday, December 18. I’ll ship all orders via USPS Priority Mail, and I’ll dispatch them no later than the day after they are ordered. (If you order today, Monday, I’ll ship tomorrow. Tuesday orders will ship Wednesday. Wednesday orders will ship Thursday.).
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08/26/2024

It may have snowed in the high country this weekend, but it’s still summer down in the valley. Today’s dye flower harvest was a good one! I’ve fussed over these plants since April, and for the past month they’ve been flowering profusely. A friend counted 5 different species of bees in my front beds on a recent visit. This morning I watched two hummingbirds feed as I waited on the sidelines with my garden sheers. Also, my milkweed are all topped with seed pods bursting with iridescent feathers and the seeds that hold the promise of another year’s beautiful bloom. Grateful. ☺️

07/11/2024

“29 Palms was the name of the place” is the title of my new embroidered postcard. The title comes from the last line of the message written on the card, a message composed but apparently never sent as the card was neither addressed nor stamped. That makes me wonder if it was written as a sort of diary entry, a memento the traveler intended to keep for herself to jog the memory of a future version of herself trying to recall where exactly they visited and what they saw. As such it anticipates a forgetting, even of an experience that felt memorable at the time.
A recent story in the L.A. Times inspired this postcard. The article, “Solar project to destroy thousands of Joshua trees in the Mojave Desert” by Melody Petersen, details the challenges faced by a particular renewable energy project, but I know that many energy projects entail similar trade-offs. This had me tied up in knots, as I often am these days. How do we decide what to preserve and what to destroy in the name of “progress”? Who do we expect to pay the cost of “progress”, both in dollars and in compromised health and quality of life? When we already have so much land that is paved over, why must we clear more for such developments?
I started embroidering postcards as a response to proposals to launch reflective particles into the stratosphere with the intention of lowering global temperatures. More recently my embroidery work has been in response to a variety of climate-related news items, but all of my postcards share the same fundamental concerns. How will the places we love look 5 years—or 20 years—from now? Will we adequately value all lives—human and non-human—in our pursuit of progress? How do we witness the lives that we have irrevocably altered (or ended) in our pursuit of progress? Can we (re)make our world beautiful?.
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06/20/2024

Happy Solstice my friends! I've posted solstice greetings and some other updates on my website. Please stop by.

On Monday of this week, I celebrated my first harvest of flowers from my home pigment garden. I cut moonshine yarrow, purple pincushion (Scabiosa), coreopsis (Tickseed, two varieties), and buckwheat flowers. Lots of yellows and a little purple, as that’s what’s abundant in my early summer garden...

06/14/2024

Looking for something to do Saturday afternoon? Join me at the artists’ reception for Altar’d Landscapes at the Depot Gallery in Sparks! I’m honored to be showing four of my embroidered postcards in this group show sponsored by Sierra Arts Foundation ().
Altar’d Landscape ponders this question through the works of a number of Nevada artists, all of whom are interested in the intersection between the natural landscape and man-made forces. From human development to the disruption of natural cycles, these artists depict their surroundings in order to consider these questions being asked right in their own backyards. Through these works, we aim to use art to contribute to the ongoing conversation on land use in our region, as well as a broader reflection on what is most important to us.

Group show featuring artwork by William Burrows, Mackenzie Dimino, Naomi DeVore, Andrea Laue, Bobby Lee, John L’Étoile, Samantha Meehan, Rachel Stiff, and Peter Whittenberger..
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03/05/2024

My first paints made from earth pigments, all ground from stones gathered in my backyard..
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02/14/2024

Please join us this Saturday, February 17 from 12-4 PM for our artists’ reception for “In the Know, In the Now” at Sierra Arts Foundation in downtown Reno. This is the very first Downtown Modernists group show, and several exhibiting artists will be present. I’ll be there from 12-2 PM. Come see me!
I’m showing a quartet of paintings from my Timelines series and one painting from my Place Moments series.
It’s an honor to be showing work alongside:
Joanna Drakos .art
Jutta Gietl
Ashley Gottlieb
April Gratrix
Tina Moldau

02/08/2024

https://www.andrealaue.com/blog/local-pigments

Reflections on some mid-winter explorations of color in my own backyard.

02/01/2024

I’m very excited to be a part of Downtown Modernists’ first group show, “In the Know, In the Now” at Sierra Arts Foundation in downtown Reno. The show opens today, February 1 and runs through the month. Mark your calendars for our reception on Saturday, February 17, 12-4 PM. Sierra Arts is open Tu-F 10-4 and Saturday 12-4.
I’m showing a quartet of paintings from my Timelines series and one painting from my Place Moments series. Each of the Timelines pieces was made with three different botanical inks.
Timelines: Yellow. Made with marigold, weld, and buckthorn inks.
Timelines: Brown. Made with chestnut, walnut, and eucalyptus bark inks.
Timelines: Red. Made with madder root, cochineal, and Himalayan rhubarb inks.
Timelines: Blue. Made with three different indigo inks.
It’s an honor to be showing work alongside:
Joanna Drakos .art
Jutta Gietl
Ashley Gottlieb
April Gratrix
Tina Moldau
I’ll share an exhibit photo or two soon!