Andrea Dupree
Our Lady of Ouiski Bayou, 2026
Hand-felted wool, plastic, brass 20"h x 9"w x 9"d
hand-felted wool, found plastic & brass
Andrea Dupree
Felt Field #1, 2026
Hand-felted Navajo Churro fleece 6.5ft x 2.5ft
Primal mindset and process exploring the the archetypal field… a place where inner and outer worlds meet. This felted panel exists as a zone where personal experience, ancestral & elemental wisdom, materials, environment and the collective unconscious overlap.
Andrea Dupree
Mandorla, 2024
wool felt, Eco Vita organic wool thread, variscite, pearl 5.5" x 3.5" x .5"
Part of an ongoing altar series, Mandorla weaves together felt, stone, and thread into a sacred threshold. Framed by variscite and grounded with pearl, the form of the mandorla—a symbol of union and divine encounter—emerges in hand-stitched wool. This piece invites contemplation of portals, altars, and the spaces where opposites meet to hold transformation.
Andrea Dupree
Solstice, 2025
wet-felted wool, ramie, flax, sari silk 24" x 4"
Layers of hand-placed fibers radiate from a glowing center, recalling the sun at its height. Depending on its placement—hung vertically on a wall or resting horizontally on a table—the piece shifts in dialogue with its surroundings, reflecting and refracting light in ever-changing ways. Both sturdy and delicate, Solstice honors the turning of seasons and the luminous balance between structure and radiance.
Andrea Dupree
Remembering Land, 2023
cotton dyed with found rusted metal, vinegar, acequia water and kochia leaves 24" x 24"
From my ongoing ecological art project, Sense of Place. Sense of Place is an ongoing ecological art project exploring relationships between people and environment in Northern New Mexico through re-contextualized found materials, paths and ritual acts. The project site is located in Po-Woh-Geh-Owingeh “Where the water cuts through”; situated on land that was once a homestead ranch, surrounded by and surrounding land of the Pueblo of San Ildefonso, and shadowed by the once secret city of Los Alamos (birthplace of the atomic bomb). These dynamic layers of land use are ever present in my mind as I explore paths to understanding this place. Guided by Ecofeminist principles, I aim to examine site-specific history alongside parallels between colonization, discarded materials, open dumps, invasive plants and patriarchal mindset of gender, race, class and the environment. By referencing spiritual and religious traditions of altars, meditation gardens, processions and prayer cards, Sense of Place seeks to offer opportunities for reflection and reconnection.
Andrea Dupree
Portal, 2024
wool & metallic felt, Eco Vita organic wool thread, variscite 6" x 3.5" x .25"
Portal is a tactile meditation on perception, thresholds, and transformation. Hand-embroidered onto a base of wool and metallic felt, this piece functions as both adornment and altar—an object to carry or contemplate. Radiating from the center, fine stitches in naturally dyed Eco Vita thread draw attention inward, toward the variscite stone nestled like an offering. Rooted in metaphysical inquiry and informed by Catholic iconography, the work references mandorlas, sacred hearts, and visionary sight. It is part of an ongoing body of wearable fiber altars—intimate objects that honor unseen energies and invite the viewer to sense the symbolic layers embedded in material, form, and gesture.
Andrea Dupree
Holding It Together, 2026
wool, metal, wood 13" diameter × 4" deep
This trophy series came from a conversation with my therapist about internal versus external validation, and how I sometimes feel trapped by the latter. She reminded me that most of us have been conditioned since childhood to seek and celebrate external validation. This is evidenced by trophies, gold stars, grades, verbal praises/ “good job!”, likes, getting the job/promotion/raise/acceptance letter etc. etc. External validation is part of life, and must be balanced by an equally shiny/thrilling internal praise system. So this is my award to myself for holding it together during hard times. You likely deserve this award too.
Andrea Dupree
Nigredo Series: Blues, 2026
wool, flax, ramie, silk 20" diameter x 3" deep
This work emerged through an extended process of layering, wet felting, and fulling. Rather than beginning with a fixed image, I built the surface by repeatedly adding and compressing fine layers of wool, allowing water, friction, and time to shape the final form. Deep blues gradually merged into black, creating subtle shifts in tone that emerged through the felting process itself. As the wool shrank, the fibers settled into radiating patterns that record the movement of my hands. I work intuitively, responding to the material rather than following rigid plans, preserving irregular edges and subtle variations as evidence of the making process. For me, felting is a slow conversation between body and material, where repetition and attention transform loose fibers into a unified surface that carries the memory of its own creation.
