Artist
Andrea Geyer (born 1971 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany; lives and works in New York City, USA).

Materials:
Collaged archival prints; variable dimensions.

Description:
“The intimate collages of ‘Asterism’ combine photographs of women active at the Bauhaus in Dessau as teachers and students until 1933 with Joseph Albers Constellation drawings from the 1950s. The faces of the women appear as a prism when layered with Albers’ drawings, thinking through the fate of many of them as seen only through the lens of their male counterparts.”
—”Andrea Geyer: Truly Spun Never,” Parque Galería, 2016.

“Hung on the walls is the more effective ‘Asterism’ series (2016): historical portraits of women who contributed to the Bauhaus—such as artists Anni Albers, Marianne Brandt, Gertrud Arndt, Lucia Moholy, and Grete Stern—all deconstructed and reassembled under Josef Albers’s Structural Constellations (c. 1950-60), which consist of symmetric configurations of straight lines. In these charming collages, the artists’ faces look like pieces of a misplaced puzzle: eyes and mouth as forehead, arms upside down. Fragmented and uncanny, the images of these creative women who, alongside their partners and colleagues, developed experimental practices, could evoke the relatively minor attention they received compared with their male counterparts. Their achievements are dispersed or unrecognized, such as their faces in the photographs distorted by a kaleidoscopic effect.”
—Claudia Arozqueta, “Andrea Geyer’s ‘Truly Spun Never’,” review of “Truly Spun Never,” Parque Galería, Mexico City, Art Agenda, March 2, 2016.

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