Andrea Perantoni is an artist pursuing a BFA with a painting specialization and an art history minor at UTSA. She was born in New Orleans, Louisiana and resides in San Antonio, Texas. Her medium of choice is oil painting, which she started at 10 years old when she first started receiving private lessons and tutoring. She is an autism mother to her 8 year old son and works as a portrait artist.

This series is an exploration of Contemporary Surrealism with collage elements. The artist interpetation on religion, practices, ancestry and healing from trauma were explored in this series, as well as the celebration of the female form. Modern palettes of colors in skin tone or the denial of color were utilized to convey emotions and themes within the series. Visual hierchy and picture plane overlapping and denial/assertion of space perspective wise brought in surrealist elements to portraiture to this study of female forms.

The artist investigated her first self-portrait in oils, as well as portrait in black and gray. The portrait The Call of The Void investigates the overcoming and the reclaiming of self and choosing life despite struggles, one must bloom in the darkness and choose life. The series in project one investigates this process over a two year period, through the dark parts and then finding oneself emerging free again.