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Spirit Shrines - Memorial Art

Andres Amador Arts

Spirit Shrines - Memorial Art

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Spirit Shrines - Memorial Art

Painting with Clay

Locally sourced clay painted onto river boulders

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Andres Amador Arts

Land art at monumental scale—temporary designs created with sand, clay, and other natural materials. Based in Nevada City, California.

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My first time using clay paint within an artwork was for my 2014 contribution to the Trails and Vistas event near Lake Tahoe in which artists and performers create installations and performances along a state park trail. I was stationed in a stand of

Coordinated Chaos 13

Ancient Grain – Salvaged Remnants Series
Scrap mill wood | 2024–2026

My latest experiment- multiple depth levels. It’s tricky to lay out and trickier to router. But I’m digging the result.

These pieces

A selection of creations from this past weekend’s beach gathering. Our theme was to connect to a powerful experience with nature and then express that on the sand.

Thank you to everyone who came out, participated, and made space for this shar

I initially approached working on scrap wood by trying to squeeze my design within its borders. This piece is the first time I decided to act as if the wood were a fragment of a larger artwork and allow the design to spill off the edges. This piece i

‘Warped Fields’, 2009. San Francico, CA

This artwork was made during my exploration of process art-making in which conditions are created and then the artwork is allowed to reveal itself rather than being a product of my control. I love

Outdoors is mainly where I envision my works residing, weathering in the elements.

Carvings on salvaged wood, responding to the irregularities and unique shape of each ‘canvas.’ I don’t have interior space for a workshop, so all th

I created this piece as a gift on my birthday to the community land where I live. While my previous routered artworks were translations of the designs I had been doing on the beach, this time I wanted to create something that was a reflection of the

Sorting my collection of treasures...

I recently pulled out some of my myriad assortment of boxes and bins to see what I have been collecting for the past decade from my wanderings around the world. Unusual rocks and shells from far away beaches. Dr

Sliceform San Francisco, CA is now available as a print.

This piece is one of my earliest. It is a creation of my ‘1st phase’ in making large-scale beach art, where my exploration was purely geometric, my first approach to keeping things

Light Sculptures

As a young fella, I would obsess over connecting points on graph paper, turning straight lines into curving, intricate graphs. Many years later, those same patterns became 3D kinetic sculptures, using string instead of lines. All o

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