Artist: Kristen Tordella-Williams | Location: Opelika, AL
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Artist: Kristen Tordella-Williams | Location: Opelika, AL
Opelika, AL
Kristen Tordella-Williams is a contemporary carpetbagger who was raised in Massachusetts, lived and worked in Jackson, Mississippi for seven years, and now lives in Opelika, Alabama. Her research focuses on the impact the past has on our present through labor both personal and communal. She re-interprets materials commonly found in recycling bins, hardware stores, visual archives, and nature as remnants of our labor and explores issues of social justice, identity, gender, and memory manifest in these works. Kristen has exhibited nationally and internationally, most recently in a villa in Berlin, Germany. She has been an artist in residence at Salem Art Works, the Ateliers im Alten Schlachthof, and the TIDES Institute. Kristen is the President of the Mid-South Sculpture Alliance and an Assistant Professor of Sculpture at Auburn University.
Artist Website
kristentordellawilliams.art