Andrea Carlson: A Constant Sky
A Constant Sky is the first museum survey of mixed-media visual artist Andrea Carlson (Ojibwe and European settler descent, b. 1979). Carlson creates works that challenge the colonial narratives presented by modern artists, museum collections, and cannibal genre horror films. Utilizing a combination of text and complex visual references to animals, art objects, and cultural belongings, Carlson creates prismatic landscapes that foil American landscape genre painting.
Known for her intricate, colorful works drawn and painted with many different mediums, Carlson recently expanded her practice to include sculpture. Columns for a Horizon, a monumental sculptural work, will be presented in the exhibition in two installations. The exhibition will also feature 30 works on paper spanning her career, highlighting three large-scale paintings presented together for the first time鈥攁s the artist originally intended them to be shown.
Carlson鈥檚 meticulous, multilayered art expands the narrative around how landscape and narrative function in a colonial space. By drawing objects from museum collections and placing them in her own landscapes, Carlson refuses the idea of a singular ownership and deconstructs what it means to be interpreted by others.
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A Constant Sky is the first museum survey of mixed-media visual artist Andrea Carlson (Ojibwe and European settler descent, b. 1979). Carlson creates works that challenge the colonial narratives presented by modern artists, museum collections, and cannibal genre horror films. Utilizing a combination of text and complex visual references to animals, art objects, and cultural belongings, Carlson creates prismatic landscapes that foil American landscape genre painting.
Known for her intricate, colorful works drawn and painted with many different mediums, Carlson recently expanded her practice to include sculpture. Columns for a Horizon, a monumental sculptural work, will be presented in the exhibition in two installations. The exhibition will also feature 30 works on paper spanning her career, highlighting three large-scale paintings presented together for the first time鈥攁s the artist originally intended them to be shown.
Carlson鈥檚 meticulous, multilayered art expands the narrative around how landscape and narrative function in a colonial space. By drawing objects from museum collections and placing them in her own landscapes, Carlson refuses the idea of a singular ownership and deconstructs what it means to be interpreted by others.
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