September 7, 2011 – September 27, 2011
Hard Catalog is a series of twelve narratives about pieces of the collection coupled with illustrations of them mounted to wood panels. Andy centered his research of the material world of Elsewhere on a dimension of objecthood that, prior to his arrival, was rarely considered this season. He dove into leads on 10 of our objects’ histories and what he found was in part personal narrative, anecdotal and deeply contextual.
Andy Sturdevant (Minneapolis, MN) is an artist, writer and arts administrator living in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He has written about art, history and culture for a variety of Twin Cities-based publications and websites, including mnartists.org, Rain Taxi, Art Review and Preview!, The Rake, and Heavy Table. His essays have also appeared in publications of the Walker Art Center and the Jerome Foundation. He is also Artists Resources Director at Springboard for the Arts in Lowertown St. Paul, where he runs a resource center and library for artists and small arts organizations. He was an Elsewhere artist-in-residence in the fall of 2011. His first voting experience was the 1998 mayoral election of Louisville, Kentucky, where pulled the lever for a former punk rock label owner running under the Reform Party banner.
Residency: September 7, 2011 - September 27, 2011
During his residency, Andy made Hard Catalog. Andy returned as a national artist commentator for Political Party 2012. Visit Andy’s Tumblr.
