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Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian
NEW YORK, NY - Five artists investigate the complex relationship between Native art and the landscape in "Off the Map: Landscape in the Native Imagination," opening at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian in New York, the George Gustav Heye Center on March 3. The exhibition, which comprises recent work by Jeffrey Gibson, Carlos Jacanamijoy, James Lavadour, Erica Lord and Emmi Whitehorse, closes Sept. 3.
For Native people, land has multiple meanings. It is home, culture and identity, but it also represents violence, isolation and loss. The artists in this exhibition reinvent and examine landscape from this complex perspective, creating work that exists outside of Western landscape traditions. Their work also defies common expectations of Native American art in both its form and content.
Jeffrey Gibson's (Mississippi Band Choctaw/Cherokee) oil and silicone paintings utilize intensely colored marks, glossy and transparent pours and pigmented silicone to depict an imaginary and fantastic environment. A Creative Capital grant recipient, Gibson showcases five paintings and...