ARTIST STATEMENT
Flipping the Script is the latest in my series of projects employing the business card format. The interactive work, displayed on turntables, invites consideration of the often-feminine inclination toward diminishment of our voice and agency, through the frequently unwarranted utterance, “Sorry…” When overused, “sorry” can imply insecurity, uncertainty, or low self-esteem, in effect undermining one’s worthy/valuable/significant opinion, actions, and presence. Courier font, the standard of screenplays, suggests a faithful recitation of lines from the patriarchal saga. Let’s turn the tables. Let’s flip the script.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Andrea Lynn Herrick is an interdisciplinary artist with roots in collage, printmaking, and paper and book arts. Her work has appeared in group and solo shows nationally and internationally as well as Aspire magazine. After receiving a BA with Distinction in Interior Design from Purdue University, she worked as a designer and project manager for 20+ years before returning to school for fine art. As an Honors student, she studied printmaking at IU South Bend where she received the Harold and Doreen Zisla Scholarship for Experimental Art, studied abroad in Italy, and was selected as a 2017 Summer Undergraduate Resident at the South Bend Museum of Art. She went on to pursue graduate studies in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Low-Residency MFA Program, investigating work in video, textiles, performance, and installation, graduating with her MFA in 2021. Recent exhibits include Around the Bend at the South Bend Museum of Art (2022); POP!, Bridgeport Art Center (2023); and Nasty Women Chicago 2024. Herrick currently works from her home studio in South Bend, Indiana, where she has begun exploring works in collaboration with the sun.
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