Katrina Andry

Katrina Andry

human

Ein sex anaa gender	female
Country wey e be citizen	United States
Name wey dem give am	Katrina
Ein date of birth	1981
Place dem born am	New Orleans
Ein occupation	printmaker
Educate for	Louisiana State University
Residence	New Orleans
Dema official website	http://www.katrina-andry.com/
Copyright status as creator	works protected by copyrights

Katrina Andry (dem born am insyd 1981) be an American visual artist ein printmaker. She be based insyd New Orleans, Louisiana.

Early life den education

Dem born Katrina Andry insyd New Orleans, Louisiana. Andry first study graphic design at Louisiana State University ein receive ein BFA insyd 2004.Template:Better source needed She then study printmaking at Louisiana State University (LSU) insyd Baton Rouge, Louisiana, den receive ein MFA degree insyd 2010.Template:Self-published inline While at school, Andry be inspire by artists such as Adrian Piper.

Career

Andry dey work insyd New Orleans, as well as at Xavier University insyd Ohio. She uses color-reduction wood cut prints insyd small ein large-scale prints. Some of ein prints are almost five feet long in order to expose de view to degrading clichés. Andry's works never contain a specific person, but more of an ideal of certain groups of people. Her work be feature insyd multiple publications such as, New American Paintings, edition 118, Art in Print, den The Saratoga Collection.

Andry's work explores de negative effects stereotypes have on people of color. She dey know for ein large-scale, full-color woodblock prints. Ein works feature white subjects insyd blackface, depicting negative cliches den caricatures of black culture. Through these depictions, Andry explores how stereotypes dey perpetuate to benefit a majority while disenfranchising oda groups of people. Andry challenges de majority social norms ein questions how these norms affect how individuals see one another. She san uses non-people-of-color insyd her work to portray more dan black culture. However, wen Andry's works are seen as black culture, de stereotype-norms dey emphasize. She typically uses white men to symbolize authority over people of color stereotypes. Andry shows dis visually insyd ein work by practicing large-scale color reduction insyd woodcut prints.

Dem list Andry insyd de September, 2012 Art insyd Print magazine as one of de top 50 printmakers. She has recently shown at de Hammonds House Museum (solo), de Pensacola Museum of Art (solo), ein de New Orleans Museum of Art. She san dey be an artist-in-residence at Anchor Graphics insyd Chicago; Kala Art Institute insyd Berkeley, California; den de Joan Mitchell Center insyd New Orleans.

Andry's work dey exhibite at de Ogden Museum of Southern Art ein Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans. Insyd 2016, Andry's work dey include insyd de Atlanta Biennial at de Atlanta Contemporary Art Center alongside artists Coco Fusco, Skylar Fein, Harmony Korine, Kalup Linzy den Stacy Lynn Waddell.

Recognition

Dem dey identify Andry insyd de Jan./Feb. 2012 issue of Art in Print as one of de top 50 printmakers. Dem award Andry residencies from de Joan Mitchell Center of New Orleans, Anchor Graphics insyd Chicago, ein de Kala Art Institute insyd Berkeley, California. Insyd 2016, Andry receive a grant from de Art Matters Foundation.

Exhibitions

• 2008–2010: Stabbed in the Art, Bohemian Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA
• 2009: Business Casual, High Water Gallery
• 2009: Lock Down, Good Children Gallery
• 2009: Everything Must Go, Good Children Gallery
• 2009: First Wednesday, Baton Rouge Gallery
• 2009: BookOpolis, Bookworks
• 2010: Emerge, Ogden Museum of Southern Art
• 2010: Here and Now, Bricks and Bombs Gallery
• 2010: 12th Annual Venus Envy, Baton Rouge Gallery
• 2011: Instructions – Call and Response, Antenna Gallery
• 2011: Mahalia Jackson Tribute, Stella Jones Gallery
• 2011: What We Can Do, Antenna Gallery
• 2011: Black Art Now, M Francis Gallery
• 2012: Otherness and American Values, Staple Goods
• 2012: Geographica, DuMois Gallery
• 2012: Nola Now, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans
• 2012: Heavy Hitters, Peveto Gallery
• 2013: Visual Artist Network (VAN) Annual Show, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans
• 2013: Shape of Place, Staple Goods
• 2014: Together We Stare Out From the Shadows; Hiding From Their Prejudiced Stares, Isaac Delgado Fine Arts Gallery – Delgado Community College
• 2015: Indecent Intentions Leave Me Vulnerable and Voiceless, Staple Goods
• 2015: Initiating Cause and Effect, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery
• 2016: Atlanta Biennial, The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center