Andrea Geyer

Lives and works in New York, NY, USA

Artist statement

Andrea Geyer’s work ranges across multiple media, incorporating text, photography, painting, sculpture, video and performance. It explores the complex politics of time and memory, with a particular focus on those who identify or at some point were identified as woman. In her work, she continuous to find ways to re-materialize the entanglement of presence and absence created by ideologically driven omissions in archives and histories through a process of performatively un-sensing time. From her early investigations into urban environments, cultural landscapes and notions of citizenship and nationhood in the U.S. as well as her native Germany to more recent research into women’s contributions to modernism, Geyer’s work continuously seeks to create spaces that offer re-orientation(s) of the past towards the urgency of a present moment.

Artwork

• a promise of lightening, 2024. embroidered and sewn silkscreened paper. silver embroidery thread, iridescent ink. dimensions variable.
• Manifest Banners, 2024. white nylon with silverfoil applique letters. size variable.
• Never Yet, 2023. 6-channel synchronized video, voiceover 36 min, audiorama speakers, chairs
• plein air, 2023. silkscreen
• Feeding the Ghosts, 2019. Installation with slide projectors, empty slide frames, books, projector stands, speakers, two tables with lamps, library chairs, Teapot with cup, coffee table, sandbags, voiceover
• Constellations (Zitkála-Šá "Red Bird" after Gertrude Kasebier) , 2025. black and white hand-cut archival print.
• Constellations (Frida Kahlo after Toni Frissell) , 2018. Hand-cut archival prints on rag paper
• Constellations (María Teresa de Rojas “Titin”) , 2018. Hand-cut archival prints on rag paper
• Constellations (Lydia Cabrera), 2018. Hand-cut archival prints on rag paper
• Constellations (Jessie Redmon Fauset) , 2018. Hand-cut archival prints on rag paper
• Constellations (Carrie Stettheimer after Arnold Genthe) , 2018. Hand-cut archival prints on rag paper
• If I told her, 2017. Wood, horsehair
• Revolt, They Said, 2012. Graphite on paper
• Insistence, 2013. single channel video