In an analog assault on our digital age, my practice is driven by the human hand, the energy of my touch.

I deal in labor-intensive techniques that move between fiber art and experimental design. Informed by a prior career as a professional ballerina, I felt wool by hand, with needles or water, using a natural balance of asymmetry and irregularity to evoke an impression of perpetual movement. My sculptural forms are either welded steel or entirely carved by hand, without the use of any power tools.

The resulting works poetically explore notions of materiality and so-called reality, as they operate in the liminal space between the domestic and the wild. Across disciplines, my work seeks to create a surreal, tactile encounter... a sensory experience that unsettles familiar perception and returns you to the world slightly altered.

– Andrea Spiridonakos

Andrea Spiridonakos (b. Winsted, CT) is a fiber artist and designer who lives in Miami Beach. She has exhibited internationally at Musée des Arts Décoratifs (Paris) in collaboration with the Métiers d’Arts CHANEL, and had solo exhibitions at institutions such as Newport Art Museum, Coral Gables Museum, Adrienne Arsht Center and the Miami Design District. Her work is acquired into the permanent collection at deYoung Museum in San Francisco and part of private collections across the US.

After a successful career as a professional ballerina performing lead roles to literary acclaim, she graduated from NYC’s Fashion Institute of Technology with a degree in Fashion Design and a Critic’s Choice Award for Outstanding Design. Her object-making spans the lines of fiber art, fashion, utilitarian sculpture & installation. In 2019, she launched her fashion brand, Spiridonakou. Her debut collection of hand-felted garments sold at the legendary NYC retailer Bergdorf Goodman & was featured in their iconic windows. Andrea has created hand-painted textiles for Isabel† and Ruben Toledo as well as designed 2023, 2024 & 2026 world premiere commissions for Miami City Ballet. Her artwork has been featured on the cover of Assouline’s book “Miami Beach” and the cover of Fiber Art Now (Winter, 2024). She is a resident at the Bakehouse Art Complex.