Exit, Andrea Carlson; Highpoint Center for Printmaking

Artwork Overview

Cultural affiliations: Ojibwe, French, Scandinavian
born 1979
founded 2001
Exit, 2019
Where object was made: United States
Material/technique: screen print
Dimensions:
Object Height/Width (Height x Width): 862 x 1217 mm
Object Height/Width (Height x Width): 33 15/16 x 47 15/16 in
Frame Dimensions (Height x Width x Depth): 36 5/16 x 50 5/16 x 1 in
Weight (Weight): 16 lbs
Credit line: Museum purchase: Gift of Colette and Jeff Bangert
Accession number: 2019.0041
On display: Long Ellis Gallery

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Images

Label texts

Bold Women

This print by Ojibwe artist Andrea Carlson addresses cultural loss and erasure of Native lands in the Upper Midwest. Beneath the red exit sign in purple and yellow are references to the mica hand/talon of the Mississippian peoples as well as the ancient sacred mounds that have been destroyed by settlers or hidden from view. Carlson evokes symbolic areas of passage and woodland refuge for imaginative migration, honoring the enduring power of ancient Indigenous aesthetic and social systems.

Exhibitions

Cassandra Mesick Braun, curator
Kate Meyer, curator
Angela Watts, curator
2021
Susan Earle, curator
2025