Kathryn Andrews (b. 1973, Mobile, Alabama) channels the legacies of both pop art and minimalism, often juxtaposing readymades and found imagery (such as certified film props and licensed photographs) with fabricated, meticulously finished forms. The reflective surfaces of Andrews’s work call attention to the act of looking and reveal the ways in which images and cultural symbols are rooted in the physical world. Through such combinations, she examines latent power dynamics in acts of desire and consumption, and addresses the implied violence of dominant image histories from a feminist perspective to open up new, more critically aware ways of seeing. Her work takes shape in a variety of media, including sculpture, large-scale printmaking, and performance; the viewer’s body is always an implied, and often direct, subject of her practice.
Kathryn Andrews has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the DePaul Art Museum, Chicago (2020), MSU Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing (2017); High Line, New York (2016); Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas (2016) and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2015); Bass Museum of Art, Miami (2014); and Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany (2013). Her work will be included in Not My Circus, Not My Monkeys: The Circus Motif in Contemporary Art, Kunstmuseum Thun, Switzerland, from September 16 through December 3, 2023. She has been included in numerous group exhibitions, including Ecstatic: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2023); Tense Conditions, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany (2021); Graphic Pull: Contemporary Prints from the Collection, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina (2020–2021); In Production: Art and the Studio System, Yuz Museum, Shanghai (2020); Good Dreams, Bad Dreams: American Mythologies, Aïshti Foundation, Beirut (2016); NO MAN’S LAND: Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Family Collection, Miami (2015); The Los Angeles Project, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing (2014); and Made in L.A. 2012, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Her work is in the permanent collections of de la Cruz Collection, Miami; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Musuem Ludwig, Cologne, Germany; Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina; and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, among others. Andrews lives and works in Los Angeles.Andrews lives and works in Los Angeles.
Kathryn Andrews
Tarzan (J.W.), 2019
stainless steel, certified film prop, and certified Olympic torch
sculpture dimensions:
32 3/4 x 21 1/4 x 14 3/4 inches
(83.2 x 54 x 37.5 cm)
overall dimensions:
53 3/4 x 31 1/4 x 21 1/4 inches
(136.5 x 79.4 x 54 cm)
Kathryn Andrews
Hollywood Dahlia, 2019
aluminum, glass, ink, and paint
44 x 44 x 2 inches
(111.8 x 111.8 x 5.1 cm)
Kathryn Andrews
Make America Rainbow Again, 2018
stainless steel, aluminum, ink, and paint
89 5/8 x 55 7/8 x 10 inches
(227.6 x 141.9 x 25.4 cm)
(Inv# KA 18.004)
Kathryn Andrews
Black Bars: Déjeuner No. 12 (Girl with Corn, Cocktail Pick, Pen, Peanuts, Swedish Fish and Donut), 2017
aluminum, Plexiglas, ink, and paint
92 x 73 1/4 x 4 1/2 inches
(233.7 x 186.1 x 11.4 cm)
Kathryn Andrews
Orange Crush, 2016
stainless steel, ink, and paint
90 x 44 x 24 7/8 inches
(228.6 x 111.8 x 63.2 cm)
Kathryn Andrews
Cinco de Mayo, 2015
aluminum, Plexiglass, and archival pigment print
84 x 36 x 4 inches
(213.4 x 91.4 x 10.2 cm)
Kathryn Andrews
Hobo (Santa's Helper), 2014
ink on paper and Plexiglas, aluminum, paint, and mixed media
43.75 x 37 x 2.25 inches
(111.1 x 94 x 5.7 cm)
Kathryn Andrews
Coming to America (Filet-O-Fish), 2013
stainless steel, paint, found object, and certified film props
104.25 x 54 x 43 inches
(264.8 x 137.2 x 109.2 cm)
Kathryn Andrews
Massacre (Selection), 2012
silkscreen on paper, “Allen Ruppersberg, Screamed from Life, 1986, silkscreen on paper, 40 x 25 inches”
40 x 56 inches
(101.6 x 142.2 cm)
Kathryn Andrews
Rainbow Successor, 2011
stainless steel, rented costume
73 x 51 3/4 x 48 inches
(185.4 x 131.4 x 121.9 cm)
Kathryn Andrews
John Hancock, 2011
aluminum, pigment print on vinyl
138 x 174 x 28 inches
(350.5 x 442 x 71.1 cm)
Kathryn Andrews
Double Span, 2010
chrome plated steel, powder coated steel, mylar ribbon, and inflated balloons
87 x 36 x 10 inches
(221 x 91.4 x 25.4 cm)