In partnership with the Center for Native Futures.

Andrea Carlson’s works are often cinematic panoramas of landscapes and seascapes that blend vivid patterns, symbols, text, figures, animals, and shells, all of which appear as washed-up debris on the Great Lakes shores. A recurring motif in her practice is horizons, which she defines as a space for safety, agency, and power. She primarily uses paper, recognizing how the material has been historically essential to the drafting and signing of treaties that have dispossessed Indigenous people of their land. Carlson draws from her Ojibwe and Scandinavian heritage to consider how Indigenous people have been omitted from, included in, and imagined within the Western landscape painting tradition.

After the lecture, join the artist for a reception with refreshments.

ABOUT

Andrea Carlson (b. 1979) is a visual artist who maintains a studio practice in northern Minnesota and Chicago, Illinois. Carlson’s works primarily on paper, creating painted and drawn surfaces with many mediums. Her work addresses land and institutional spaces, decolonization narratives, and assimilation metaphors in film. Her work has been acquired by institutions such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Walker Art Center, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Denver Art Museum, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, and the National Gallery of Canada. Carlson was a recipient of a 2008 McKnight Fellow, a 2017 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors award, a 2021 Chicago Artadia Award, and a 2022 United States Artists Fellowship. Carlson is a co-founder of the Center for Native Futures in Chicago.

ACCESS INFORMATION: This program is free and open to the public. For questions and access accommodations, email gallery400engagement@gmail.com.