Katrina Andry, Feb. 1
Artist Lecture: February 1, 5:30, 2024, 5:30 PM // Art and Architecture Building, Room 109 // UT Downtown Gallery Exhibition: January 5 – February 17, 2024 // Presented by the UT Downtown Gallery
A native of New Orleans, LA, Katrina Andry received an M.F.A in printmaking in 2010. She currently lives and works in New Orleans where she maintains a studio.
January 5 – February 17, 2024, the work of Katrina Andry will be exhibited in the UT Downtown Gallery as an exhibition titled The Promise of the Rainbow Never Came + work from Colonial Colorism Influences in the Black Community.
Her lecture will take place Thursday, February 1, at 5:30 PM, Art and Architecture Building, Room 109. In addition to her artist talk, Andry will give a gallery walkthrough, meet with elementary and high school students, The Bottom’s Black Creatives Meetup Group, and visit and upper level printmaking class.
Andry’s work is often in dialogue with the viewer, asking them to confront their own race and gender biases and to consider how it affects the quality of life of their community writ large.
Andry was listed in the September, 2012 Art in Print magazine as one of the top 50 printmakers. She has recently shown at the Hammonds House Museum (solo), the Pensacola Museum of Art (solo), and the New Orleans Museum of Art. She has also been an artist-in-residence at Anchor Graphics in Chicago, Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, CA, and the Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans.