Bek Andersen received an MFA in photography from the Yale School of Art in 2017 after working for several years as a fashion and entertainment photographer in New York City.

A queer spiritualist raised by devout Mormon parents in a suburb of Oklahoma City, Andersen’s work is concerned with the fictive and performative identities of power, gender, sex and the mythologies through which the present claims authenticity.

This background situates the work between a variety of technologies and attendant politics of display. Her photographs and installations present visions of truth as a provocation to look more closely at the narratives that shape our worldview.

The book mentioned in the interview was She Said, by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey

Garden Pleasure, Yale Architecture Gallery, Jan 2020 Window Triptych: (Pods, Figs, Pods). Common Milkweed, Camille holding figs. Materials: Newsprint, face mounted with Vegetable Oil. This Piece is 100% Compostable. 10 1/4' h x 23 1/2' w.

Who Governs? Artspace New Haven, Oct 2020 Power Portraits: The official unofficial leadership of New Haven's social justice movement Materials: Fiber Inkjet prints, Wheatpaste 6' h x 8' w