About the Artist

Andrea LaHue’s goal as an artist is to paint our time with virtuosity. In her most recent project "Cross Country Random Acts of Flowers", she has done just that. A deep love and curiousity for the beauty of the United States and its" inhabitants and their "Main Streets" , LaHue spread her "Random Acts of Flowers" from sea to shining sea.

As with most artists, she is inspired by the day to day and her work is in constant evolution.  For LaHue, it’s about simplifying the view without compromising the details, making life less complicated and contrived, instead, flowing in a light hearted, straight forward and beautiful way.  Skillfully engaging paint as a vehicle for channeled inspiration, LaHue allows the full breadth of subject, emotion and meaning to inhabit her paintings.  Each painting captures the moment and dimensions of life, allowing others to come closer. 

LaHue’s main body of work is expressed in oils, a medium she utilizes in a classical tradition modified by a fertile, current edge.  Her Flowers are born of natures calling and the meditative quality of the seasons and passage of time.  What’s inside, what’s inevitable, what’s archetypical?  Constantly pushing up, through the ground, heralding the circle of life and its simple, astounding, transient force.  Her Totem Animal Energy series is her reflection of personalities and ways of being found in the people around her.  LaHue’s Energy series shows the hyper reality she believes exists, the energy and dimensions around and within us we perceive, yet cannot see.  The Cityscapes are born out of LaHue’s outward experience on her daily journeys where the routine is highlighted, beautified and imbued with a transient quality, heightening the now.  The "Cross-Country Random Acts of Flowers Project" is LaHue's latest endevour. Painting giant flowers on transitioning buildings on 'Main Streets" across the United States of America and painting oils from experiences of the journey..

Andrea LaHue was born in Vicenza Italy to a US Military family.  Living in Europe and the United States, LaHue was exposured to the most revered Western artworks in the world, from a very young age.

Painting all her life and calling Los Angeles her home, LaHue has shown in New York, Los Angeles and Paris.  

Corporate Resume

Experience Summary:

• Experience with Social Media, Blogging, websites, Adobe and Microsoft
• Forward thinking and excellent at all stages of creative planning, development and implementation.
• Spokesperson and former model familiar with both sides of the camera.
• Versatile, confident and mature.
• Accomplished artist, graphic designer, stylist, writer and director.
• Team player, skilled motivator, collaborator and teacher.

Professional Experience:
Creator, January 2000 to Present
www.aLaHue.com , Los Angeles, CA

• Creator, Cross Country Random Acts of Flowers.  Mixed media project where over 100 giant flowers have been painted on transitioning buildings in over 45 US cities across the country to uplift, beautify and inspire.  Responsible for concept, funding, production, social media, blogging, design, written materials, publicity and interacting with the public.  http://www.alahue.com/Cross-Country%20Random%20Acts%20of%20Flowers%20Project.html
  
• Logo and graphic design, web design, social media, copy, pop and printed materials for several musicians and companies  http://alahue.com/Andrea%20LaHuegraphicdesign.html
  
• Fine/Street Artist, paintings, multi-media, murals, public art, card prints, commissions and inclusion in art collections such as Richard Weisman. http://www.toledofreepress.com/2007/07/20/warhol-collector-paying-a-visit-to-the-parkwood-gallery/
  
• Art Director , La Premiere  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1517505/, The Dark Horse, others
  
• Scenic Designer, How I Met Your Mother Lily’s characters’ paintings  http://www.hulu.com/watch/20706/how-i-met-your-mother-nude-marshall-over-bar#s-p5-sr-i0, http://www.hulu.com/watch/20710/how-i-met-your-mother-nude-barney#s-p6-sr-i0
  
• Color and Aesthetic Consultant in Architectural Development, Pacific Development Group, Standard Enterprises, Rick Nager, others.
  

Stylist, June 1997 to December 1999
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, New York, NY

• Served as stylist for Martha Stewart Living Multimedia programming, commercials and print in production, styling and set design as well as segment creation. http://www.marthastewart.com/article/tinsel-trading-ornaments

Fashion Model/Spokesperson/Consultant, November 1991 to May 1997
Various Companies, Los Angeles, CA and New York, NY

• Responsible for public relations and sales activities such as commercials, print, video, catalog, fashion shows, sales meetings, showroom sales and fitting for companies such as YSL, Gucci, Ellen Tracy, Fendi and others.

Creative Director, May 1989 to November1991
Strand VCI Entertainment, Santa Monica, CA

• Handled packaging design including advertising, point of purchase, copy and budget for this start-up, sell-through video company, its’ Magnetics subsidiary and introduced such series as Britt Alcroft’s Thomas the Tank Engine to the U.S. market.

Asst. to the Publisher/Conference Coordinator, February 1986 to May 1989
Federal Computer Week, Fairfax, VA

• Responsible for sales material and support, public relations and special event coordination in the first years of this Federal IT weekly.

Education
1984 to 1989  George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
1983 to 1984  Ferrum College, Ferrum, VA