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In this episode of Practice + Personality, artist Kathryn Andrews talks about inspiration from Baudelaire and floral menace.

Los Angeles–based artist Kathryn Andrews (b. 1973) presents two new sculptures that reflect upon the current political climate in the United States. Constructed for the museum's unique gallery spaces, Andrews’s works mine and meld the cultural histories of Hollywood, superhero comics, and twentieth-century art into a new mashed-up fictitious narrative. Her works also nod to the supporting role the MSU Broad played in the Hollywood movie ​Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice​ (2016) as a dramatic set. Instead of featuring the two famous protagonists, however, Andrews’s installation positions the viewer as both actor and interlocutor in a drama involving "the individual" and "the state."

Field Station is an annual cycle of projects with a particular focus on new terrain, whether new work or evidence of a new direction in an artist’s practice. The series stresses the importance of research by offering a space for artists to further develop ideas that may be in the early stages of conception.

Field Station: Kathryn Andrews is organized by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University and curated by Steven L. Bridges, Assistant Curator. Support for this series is provided by the MSU Federal Credit Union.