12 Facts About Carl Andre

Carl Andre was an American minimalist artist recognized for his ordered linear and grid format sculptures.

Carl Andre was acquitted of a second-degree murder charge in a 1988 bench trial, causing uproar among feminists in the art world; supporters of Mendieta have protested at his subsequent exhibitions.

Carl Andre completed primary and secondary schooling in the Quincy public school system and studied art at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, from 1951 to 1953.

Carl Andre served in the US Army in North Carolina from 1955 to 1956, and moved to New York City in 1956.

Carl Andre shared studio space with Stella from 1958 through 1960.

Carl Andre cited Brancusi as an inspiration for his early wood sculptures, but his conversations with Stella about space and form led him in a different direction.

From 1960 to 1964, Carl Andre worked as a freight brakeman and conductor in New Jersey for the Pennsylvania Railroad.

Carl Andre's poetry resurfaced later, most notably in a book published in 1980 by NYU Press called 12 Dialogues, in which Andre and Hollis Frampton took turns responding to one another at a typewriter using mainly poetry and free-form essay-like texts.

In 1965, Carl Andre had his first public exhibition of his work in the Shape and Structure show curated by Henry Geldzahler at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery.

Carl Andre died in Manhattan on January 24,2024, at the age of 88.

Carl Andre elected to be tried before a judge with no jury.

Museums that exhibit Carl Andre's work have been met with outrage from Mendieta's supporters.