Artist Katrina Andry will be spending three days in residence with the UT Downtown Gallery.
Be sure to mark your calendars for our exhibition and related programming!
Funding is generously provided by the Tennessee Arts Commission Arts Build Communities Program, Arts & Culture Alliance, Knox County, the Department of the Treasury, Jerry’s Artarama, and by UTK co-sponsors from the Department of Africana Studies, the Office of Community Engagement and Outreach, Multicultural Student Life, the Betsy Worden Printmaking Fund, the School of Art Programming Committee, and the College of Arts and Sciences’ Haines-Morris Grant.
Katrina Andry
January 5 – February 18, 2024
During January and February of 2024, the gallery will present two bodies of work that reflect on contemporary and historical occurrences and race relations by New Orleans printmaker, Katrina Andry. The Promise of the Rainbow Never Came is a mixed-media installation that considers the dehumanization African people endured during the Middle Passage, the second leg of enslavement and forced migration of people brought in bondage to the Americas between the late 1400 – 1800s. Andry’s Colonial Colorism Influences in the Black Community – Past and Present series presents large, colorful woodblock prints that explore ethnicity, social hierarchy, Black experiences and quality of life, and society’s perception of race relations and social standards.
In Conversation with Katrina Andry
February 1, 2024, 5:30-7:30PM
McCarty Auditorium, A+A Building, UT Campus
Althea Murphy-Price, Professor at the School of Art, will be in conversation with Katrina Andry for Black History Month.
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.
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.
Reduction Linocut Workshop with Katrina Andry
Wednesday, January 31
6-8PM, UT Printmaking Shop
2nd Floor, Art + Architecture Building
In collaboration with The Bottom and UT Printmaking, Andry will be teaching a reduction linocut workshop.
12 Spaces are available. Supplies will be provided along with a takeaway bag of materials.
First Friday Receptions
January 5, 2024, 5-9pm
February 2, 2024, 5-9pm – The artist will be present
We hope to see you at one or both of our First Friday events! Andry will be present at the February reception as part of her Knoxville residency. First Friday events are free and open to the public.
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Andry’s exhibition and programming is made possible through funding received from the Tennessee Arts Commission Arts Build Communities Program.