The Denver Art Museum will present "Andrea Carlson: A Constant Sky," the first museum survey of mixed-media visual artist Andrea Carlson, from October 5, 2025, to February 16, 2026. The exhibition features over 30 works on paper, three large-scale paintings shown together for the first time, and a monumental sculptural work titled "Columns for a Horizon." Carlson, who descends from Grand Portage Ojibwe and European settlers, creates intricate, colorful works that challenge colonial narratives in American landscape painting and museum collections.
This survey matters because Carlson's practice critically reexamines how landscape and narrative function within colonial spaces, drawing on objects from museum collections to deconstruct singular ownership and reinterpretation by others. By expanding her practice into sculpture and presenting works as originally intended, the exhibition offers a significant platform for an Indigenous artist whose work addresses pressing conversations about representation, cultural belonging, and the legacy of colonial art history.