A sweater might be something-not-a-sweater, a painting in fact a sculpture. My father’s favorite shirt changed the day he died.
One of my guiding impulses is to trace a history, to excavate a thing buried within itself and obscured by the naming process and the passage of time. The self morphs, but essential information is stored. And this applies not only to the personal, but to formal narratives as well.
In her catalog essay for The Mississippi Invitational, "Material Redemption," curator Carla Hanzal writes, "The textile tradition influences Adrienne Callander's sculptures, which are whittled into concise visual metaphors. . .[r]eferencing a line of succession and the interconnectedness of generations."
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Adrienne Callander currently lives and works in Starkville, MS where she teaches, curates, and recently served as the Interim Coordinator for the Sculpture Program at Mississippi State University. She has exhibited her work in the US and abroad, including the 2014 Mississippi Invitational (Jackson, MS), The Rahway Arts Guild (NJ), the Neuberger Museum of Art (Purchase, NY), the Speed Museum (Louisville, KY), the Hogar Collection (Brooklyn, NY), Gullkistan (Laugarvatn, Iceland), and the Kunsthochschule für Medien (Cologne, Germany).
In addition to a fine arts practice, Callander also fabricates a design line and has contracted with the house and home department of Anthropologie and the gift shop of 21c Museum/Hotel.
She has taught at Rutgers University, The University of Louisville, The Kentucky School of Art, and Indiana University Southeast where she also served as Co-Director of the IUS Arts Institute Young Artist Workshop.
Grants include a 2014 Mississippi Arts Commission Fellowship, a Kentucky Foundation for Women stipend, and a Distinguished Teaching Award from Indiana State University Southeast.
She received her MFA from the Mason Gross School of Art at Rutgers University in 2006, her Post-Baccalaureate in Visual Art from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2002, and her BA in History from Reed College in 1998.
One of my guiding impulses is to trace a history, to excavate a thing buried within itself and obscured by the naming process and the passage of time. The self morphs, but essential information is stored. And this applies not only to the personal, but to formal narratives as well.
In her catalog essay for The Mississippi Invitational, "Material Redemption," curator Carla Hanzal writes, "The textile tradition influences Adrienne Callander's sculptures, which are whittled into concise visual metaphors. . .[r]eferencing a line of succession and the interconnectedness of generations."
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Adrienne Callander currently lives and works in Starkville, MS where she teaches, curates, and recently served as the Interim Coordinator for the Sculpture Program at Mississippi State University. She has exhibited her work in the US and abroad, including the 2014 Mississippi Invitational (Jackson, MS), The Rahway Arts Guild (NJ), the Neuberger Museum of Art (Purchase, NY), the Speed Museum (Louisville, KY), the Hogar Collection (Brooklyn, NY), Gullkistan (Laugarvatn, Iceland), and the Kunsthochschule für Medien (Cologne, Germany).
In addition to a fine arts practice, Callander also fabricates a design line and has contracted with the house and home department of Anthropologie and the gift shop of 21c Museum/Hotel.
She has taught at Rutgers University, The University of Louisville, The Kentucky School of Art, and Indiana University Southeast where she also served as Co-Director of the IUS Arts Institute Young Artist Workshop.
Grants include a 2014 Mississippi Arts Commission Fellowship, a Kentucky Foundation for Women stipend, and a Distinguished Teaching Award from Indiana State University Southeast.
She received her MFA from the Mason Gross School of Art at Rutgers University in 2006, her Post-Baccalaureate in Visual Art from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2002, and her BA in History from Reed College in 1998.
