Lawrence Andrews

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For most of his artistic career Lawrence Andrews work has functioned in a fine arts context, exhibiting in museums, galleries and festivals. His work has focused on issues of race, identity and power, and has been realized in video, photography, installation, audio projects, and animation. During recent years Mr. Andrews' work has become increasingly involved with more traditional narrative and documentary methodologies, while remaining committed to his core artistic concerns.

Lawrence Andrews' work has shown extensively throughout the U.S. and internationally on cable television, at major film and art festivals, and in museums and galleries, including the Whitney Biennial, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, Pacific Film Archive, and the American Film Institute. He has received various grants awards and fellowships in support of his work, including a Rockefeller Intercultural Documentary Fellowship, and two National Endowment for the Arts Artist Fellowships.

Also see:

Viewpoints on Video: Envisioning the Black Aesthetic

Artist Collection List

Title Year Runtime Collection
An I for An I 1987 18 minutes 41 seconds Single Titles
And They Came Riding Into Town on Black and Silver Horses 1992 30 minutes Single Titles
Animated Contingencies 2013 17 minutes 8 seconds Single Titles
mythicPotentialities 2019 59 minutes 40 seconds New Releases, Single Titles
ownerbuilt 2013 48 minutes 53 seconds Single Titles
Video Art and Mass Incarceration 2021 1 hour 33 minutes 46 seconds New Releases, Curated Compilations