“Shores make imagining and scrying possible,” artist Andrea Carlson wrote for Fett magazine in 2018. This fall, her debut monograph, Andrea Carlson: A Constant Sky , compiles 20 years of her painting, looking across the horizon. An artistic force to be reckoned with, Carlson works between Chicago and northern Minnesota. Her multipanel, multimedium works compile cannibal film narratives, museum dissonance, and Indigenous Futurisms into vivid, cultural iconography–filled landscapes. She’s also a cofounder of Chicago’s Center for Native Futures : “within the adversarial context of all that teaches us to desire colonization . . . [it’s] one of these soft, joy-filled spaces,” she writes.

Andrea Carlson: A Constant Sky was published to coincide with the artist’s upcoming solo exhibitio

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