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1/8/2010

6 exhibitions

Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe

Dry Ice: Alaska Native Artists and the Landscape
curated by Julie Decker

Dry Ice: Alaska Native Artists and the Landscape is an exhibition including works by contemporary Native Alaskan artists that explore the multiple meanings of and associations with the Alaskan landscape.

“Dry ice”—a term that denotes frozen carbon dioxide, which when taken out of a frigid environment rapidly dissolves from a solid form into a gaseous state—is meant to evoke the shifting significance of the Alaskan polar landscape through contemporary Native art. Given the central place of Alaska and its landscape in recent national debates surrounding the environment and the oil crisis, the subject of this exhibition is both timely and important.

The exhibition features the work of nine Alaska Native artists, including Brian Adams, Susie Bevins-Ericsen, Perry Eaton, Nicholas Galanin, Anna Hoover, Sonya Kelliher-Combs, Erica Lord, Da-ka-xeen Mehner and Larry McNeil. Each explores their relationship to the landscape through a variety of interpretations and media, combining traditional and innovative forms from mask-making and skin sewing to photography and installation. Dry Ice was curated by Julie Decker of the International Gallery of Contemporary Art of Anchorage.

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Oblique Drift: Nicholas Galanin
curated by Tania Willard

Alaskan artist Nicholas Galanin brings transformative work to the museum from his series, “The Imaginary Indian” in which manufactured Northwest Coast masks are juxtaposed with French toile. Galanin explores the authentic and inauthentic and how interpretation, appropriation and "cultural drift” inform Northwest Coast art.

This exhibit will showcase the Curtis Legacy where Galanin strips masks, bodies and meaning down to reveal that, "The real strength in survival of indigenous knowledge and culture lies within the ability to freely and creatively represent ourselves." Shifting the colonial gaze from ethnography to pin-up, the Curtis Legacy series includes nude models wearing Indonesian made Tlingit masks. Referencing Edward Curtis photographs of the noble savage, these works lay bare the objectification of both the body and the sacred. Both series of works are brought together in Galanin's examination of globalized culture(s), freedom of cultural expression and the manifestations of change in a world of shifting cultures and ancestral echoes. Tania Willard originally curated Oblique Drift at grunt gallery in Vancouver, B.C, Canada.

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It Wasnt the Dream of Golden Cities: Postcommodity

It Wasn’t the Dream of Golden Cities is a commissioned response to Santa Fe’s 400th anniversary celebration as created by Postcommodity, an interdisciplinary Native arts collective working to advance Indigenous cultural self-determination and to decolonize American geographies and narratives.
The multi-faceted exhibition utilizes elements of sound, video, performance, installation and sculpture to recount histories stimulated from the commodification of political, social and cultural values.

Postcommodity members include Raven Chacon, Kade L. Twist, Steven Yazzie and Nathan Young.
Learn more about Postcommodity by visiting their website http://www.postcommodity.com

Opening: Wednesday, August 18, 2010, 4:00PM to 5:30PM with Postcommodity's performance/installation piece during the week of the 2010 Indian Market, celebrated with a special artists' reception

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Round-UP: Video Work by Torry Mendoza

Video artist Torry Mendoza's work centers on the re-appropriation and deconstruction of Native identity in popular culture. Through digital editing, re-presentations and satirical juxtapositions, Mendoza challenges dominant society's portrayal of Native Americans in order to call attention to the accepted perceptions of “Indigeneity.”

Taking a cue from the exhibition's title, Round-Up re-examines a collection of subjects drawn from mass media. Mendoza's artwork places personas such as the “Crying Indian” (portrayed by Iron Eyes Cody in the famous Keep America Beautiful campaign) within a conceptually centered sociopolitical context.
Round-UP was originally organized by Urban Shaman, Inc. Winnipeg, MB.

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Apaches & Angels

Apaches & Angels is a site-specific work envisioned by artist Douglas Miles. Measuring 35' in length, it incorporates hand drawn, hand cut stencil works from Miles’ Apache Skateboards Team. The installation also includes photographer Brendan Moore's documentation of the Apache Skateboard Team.

In keeping with his tradition of working with new artists, Miles mentored the emerging talent of Lynette Haozous, Rebekah Miles and Razelle Benally, the artists who installed the work over four days.

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Matterings by Rose B. Simpson in the Vision Project Gallery
curated by Michelle McGeough

Rose Simpson (Santa Clara Pueblo) inaugurates the museum’s newly formed Vision Project Gallery in Matterings, an exhibit featuring site-specific installation work.

The Vision Project Gallery is a newly dedicated exhibition space developed in conjunction with the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts’ Vision Project – New Vocabulary in Native Art Criticism, a Ford Foundation funded initiative. The Vision Project Gallery will enhance the current state of the field of contemporary Native arts by presenting solo exhibitions by artists who reflect the vibrancy and potency of our field at its most current level of activity.
Matterings is curated by Institute of American Indian Arts faculty member Michelle McGeough.

Image: Douglas Miles, untiteled

Opening reception Thursday, August 19, 2010, 5PM to 7PM

Press contact:
Guin White, (ph) 505.428.5909 membership@iaia.edu

Museum of Contemporary Native Arts
108 Cathedral Place, Santa Fe
mon-sat 10am-5pm, sun 12pm-5pm, closed on tuesday
admission adults 5, senior and students 2.50, children under 16 and Native people free

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