Andy Yoder

Andy Yoder was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1957. He attended Dartmouth College and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine, before receiving a B.F.A. from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1982. His work has been included in several shows in New York, at the Cleveland Center of Contemporary Art, and at the Portland Museum of Art, Maine, and he is the recipient of several awards and commissions. Yoder's offbeat imagery, with its Dadaist overtones, plays with viewers' associations with everyday objects and cultural icons.

*Excerpted from Tools as Art: The Hechinger Collection, published by Harry N. Abrams Inc.