Katrina Andry: The Promise of the Rainbow That Never Came

LSU Museum of Art will present the first major solo show of New Orleans native and LSU alumni Katrina Andry’s work in Louisiana. The project includes creation of new seven to ten, large-scale color reduction prints and a mixed media, site specific installation for exhibition and related educational programming. The new body of work, The Promise of the Rainbow that Never Came proffers an alternate mythology for African men, women, and children who were cast off during the Middle Passage journey toward American enslavement. Like much of Andry’s work, this series deals with the lingering marginalization of and violence against people of color in the United States. Andry’s oeuvre grapples with the social construction of race-based and skin-color based identity. This body of works offers an alternate story—a reimagining.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website