Biography
AdrinAdrina is dedicated to revelry, epic storytelling, her collaborators, and art. Adrina is an artist curator facilitator orchestrator conductor advisor instigator. AdrinAdrina plays hostess to choice art shows, robust events, balls, clambakes, movable feasts, shindigs, galas, soirees, luncheons, functions, banquets, parties, and uncommon retreats in places such as New Orleans, NYC, Marfa, LA, Joshua Tree, Virginia, London, Copenhagen, and Tulum.
AdrinAdrina is also a maker of fine objects, mainly of cloth; specifically quilts. In addition to fabric and cloth, adrina also uses ice, salt, metal, resin, wax, and food as instruments of display. She believes fabric has a memory and decorative interiors are able to speak of an interior environment within the human.
AdrinAdrina's quilts, cloth and objects of art tell stories about personal coups, heart-wrenching tragedies, legendary tales, re-invention of self, sex and survival, comic twists, pioneering enterprises, redemption by way of production, primordial needs, fantastical happenings, and purification as a punctuation. The objects are memoirs of a sort, sometimes a mirror. Most recently, Adrina froze a quilt in bed of ice.
Adrina's life began on a coffee table in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia. She now lives somewhere between Marfa, Tulum, London, New Orleans, NYC, and Uruguay. Adrina studied dance and costume design at Evergreen State College where she spent three years of her studies abroad in Europe, India, and South America. She went on to study at Central Saint Martin's School of Art and Design in London where she used the Woman's Wear program as a Fine-Art course.
Throughout her career she has formed a vast network of interesting, creative, and innovative collaborators. Adrina has worked with a diverse array of artists, designers, and luminaries- some of her favorites include Rocky Barnette, Katherine Bray, Elliot Coon, Dawn Dedeaux, Christopher and Tammy Kane, Alton Du Laney and Andre Da Costa, Gareth Pugh, Jack Chase, Edwige, Che Miller, Russell Onan Sage, Louise Riley, Jeff Stein, Billy Idol, Lukas Haas, Vincent Gallo, Usher, Lorna Leedy, David Cooper, Marina Chavez, MC Tracheotomy, Paul Reubens, Julie Joe Furley, David Slankard, Mary Ricci, Caroline Rankin, David Arquette, DNA, Abby Arauz, Tiana Hux, Mariaflora P, and Kysa Johnson.
