Identity (Cultural Examination)

Duane Slick Of his White on White Paintings: “They feature iconic imagery, but the main attraction is the seductive way he builds up white-on-white layers of paint until it resembles cake frosting or pond ice… When a Native American artist obsesses on the color white, it's pretty safe to assume a political message is involved.”

Pages of a book by Duane Slick attached to Gallery Wall

Diagrams for Landscapes and Other Manifestations

Shadow Portrait of the Artist on his War Pony

Requiem Dream “…the figure is an indistinguishable mass draped in the American flag. Slick created the shape by draping a figure of an Indian woman with cloth and then removing her extremities, resulting in a phallus-shaped object. The outline of flowers reinforces the painting's funereal mood.”

Nicolas Galanin “I have become impatient with the institutional prescription and its monolithic attempt to define culture as it unfolds. Native American Art cannot be commonly defined as our work moves freely through time.”

Medicine Man

Knowledge

From the series “What have We Become?”

The Imaginary Indian

1. What is a “space” (be that mental, physical, social or otherwise) that you would consider a “fictitious space where anything can happen”? (in other words: a space that whose parameters you define)