333 E River Road
Minneapolis, MN 55455
United States
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Andrea Carlson is a visual artist based in Chicago, Illinois, and St. Paul, Minnesota. Through painting and drawing, she cites entangled cultural narratives and institutional authority relating to objects based on the merit of possession and display. She will discuss her art practice as part of a series of Indigenous artists' talks through the Department of American Indian Studies.
Co-sponsored with American Indian Studies
Image: Andrea Carlson portrait, Made Here MN 2014.
Andrea Carlson
Andrea Carlson (b. 1979) is a visual artist currently living in Chicago, Illinois. Through painting and drawing, Carlson cites entangled cultural narratives and institutional authority relating to objects based on the merit of possession and display. Current research activities include land narratives, decolonization and assimilation metaphors in film. Her work has been acquired by institutions such as the Denver Art Museum, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, and the National Gallery of Canada. Carlson was a 2008 McKnight Fellow and a 2017 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors grant recipient. For more information contact the Bockley Gallery.