Jessica Silverman is proud to announce its representation of Andrea Carlson on the occasion of her first solo show at the gallery, which opens on September 11 and runs through October 25, 2025. Carlson is an Indigenous futurist who challenges historical fictions through powerful mixed-media works that address authenticity, creativity, human universals, and the deep time of the natural world. 

Carlson will be in conversation with Eva Respini, Curator-at-Large of the Vancouver Art Gallery, at the gallery at 5:30pm on September 11. The conversation will be recorded.

Titled “The Lasting,” Carlson’s solo show comprises two monumental paintings, eight smaller paintings on paper, and one sculpture. Carlson’s title plays on historian Jean M. O’Brien’s important book Firsting and Lasting, which examines how American local histories celebrated the arrivals and founding “firsts” of European settlers while lamenting the disappearance of the original inhabitants—even though Natives still lived in the very towns being chronicled. Indigenous people were memorialized as “lasts” in the manner of “The Last of the Mohicans,” spreading the myth of “Native extinction”—a myth that persists in many American minds to this day. However, through a conceptual twist, Carlson transforms these last-of-their-kind stories into narratives of long-lasting resilience, honoring the survival and ongoing adaptability of Native people.