Carl Andre was best known as an American minimalist artist recognized for his ordered linear and grid format sculptures and for the suspected murder of contemporary artist and third wife, Ana Mendieta. His sculptures range from large public artworks to large interior works exhibited on the floor, to small intimate works.
Carl Andre wife
Carl Andre was once married to Ana Mendieta. In 1979, Andre met artist Ana Mendieta through a mutual friendship with artists Leon Golub and Nancy Spero at AIR Gallery in New York City. Andre and Mendieta married in 1985. Mendieta fell to her death from Andre’s 34th-story apartment window in 1985, after an argument with Andre which led to his arrest.
Carl Andre children
Carl Andre does not have any children known.
Carl Andre parents
Carl Andre was born on September 16, 1935, in Quincy, Massachusetts. He 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 siblings
Carl Andre’s siblings are not known.
Source: Ghanafuo.com
