indigenousartists – Painting After Art is Dead

George Morrison

I originally posted about George in 2022 when new USPS stamps depicting his distinctive landscapes were released. Laurie at Two Coats recently reviewed the posthumous retrospective of his career at the Met.
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Ishi Glinsky investigates the traditional practices of his tribe, the Tohono O’odham Nation, as well as other North American First Nations to create contemporary homages to sacred events and customs. These investigations often consist of a close study of the history and significance of a craft tradition, the committed apprenticeship of its technique, and its assimilation or transformation within Glinsky’s artistic practice.

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Emily Kame Kngwarrey

One of the most celebrated Australian painters of the 20th century, Emily Kame Kngwarreye painted over 3,000 abstract acrylic paintings of dots, gestural lines, and vibrant hues, all inspired by her Aboriginal community’s symbols, rituals, and daily life.
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Sarah Rosalena

Elizabeth Buhe at Brooklyn Rail has words about Sara’s Star Rose, Rose Star at Sargent’s Daughters, and notes the works in Star Rose, Rose Star at combine emerging and Indigenous technologies, including dying, weaving, beading, and basketry, some of which Sarah Rosalena learned from her Wixárika relatives.
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Andrés Janacua

gets a nod from Hyperallergic s most recent 10 art shows to see in LA (December 2024 edition). The P’Urhépecha artist’s woven works navigate between craft and fine art, tradition and fashion. Working predominantly with toquillo, or plastic lanyard material, Janacua weaves patterns that recall Minimalism and geometric abstraction, as well as Indigenous designs and art forms.

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Mary Sully

Jill at Hyperallergic (in addition to Joan) calls our attention to an exhibition at The Met celebrates the work of this self-taught artist, indigenous artist who neither exhibited nor profited from her work during her lifetime.

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Linda Lomahaftewa

Burnaway takes a close look at Space Makers: Indigenous Expression and a New American Art at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, in which Linda has work.

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Dyani White Hawk

Hyperallergic says Dyani’s newest at Various Small Fires is one of 10 Art shows to see in Los Angeles in December (2023). Her mixed media works incorporate beadwork and painting, referencing both Native American traditional art forms alongside European and American modernisms. In doing so, she highlights the influence that Indigenous aesthetics have had on Western art, specifically geometric abstraction.

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Jeffrey Gibson

Sited below at Expo Chicago- it’s actually a functional drum. Apparently as always I’m the last to be on the know (he has almost 30k followers). His work has headed in new directions (although the galleria at informed me he still uses some of the drums in performances).

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Melissa Cody

was part of a recent symposia at CSU Long Beach that explored contemporary topics in abstraction through presentations by keynote speakers and panel discussions focusing on abstract visual art and its relationship with indigeneity, materiality, and ecology.

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Duane Linklater

is included in Junkyard of Dreams at Bortolami. Linklater’s practice is concerned in part with the exploration of the physical and theoretical structures of the museum in relation to the current and historical conditions of Indigenous people and their objects and forms. These explorations are articulated in a myriad of forms including sculpture, photography, film and video, installation and text works.

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Ilma Savar

Artsy says Ilma is one of 10 women artists shattering expectations feminist art. She lives in the remote Anahobehi village (Gora) in Ömie territory, a five-day trek up the volcanic slopes of Mount Lamington, Papua New Guinea. It was there that London-based gallerist Rebecca Hossack first met the Indigenous artist and encountered her textile paintings on nioge—or fine-grained, beaten cloth made from the inner bark of mulberry or fig trees—that Savari stitches additional details on top of with a superfine bat wing bone.

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Sheldon Harvey

Hyperallergic covers Convergence at Modern West, noting that the exhibition is a compelling, if at times dissonant, examination of the formal and material possibilities at the heart of abstraction.

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