Artist Registry
The White Columns Curated Artist Registry is an online platform for emerging and under-recognized artists to share images and information about their respective practices. The Registry seeks to create a context for artists who have yet to benefit from wider critical, curatorial or commercial support. To be eligible, artists cannot be affiliated with a commercial gallery in New York City.
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STATEMENT OF WORK
My current work involves remodeling and re-aestheticizing objects to create contemporary understandings of things as they have been filtered through time and dis-use.
Just as previous generations of Native American artists responded to the introduction of modern art making materials such as synthetic paint to record, recode, and reframe traditional ideas and put forth new ideas, the new works undertaken with this grant will emphasize transitive zones involving the processes of the unfamiliar becoming familiar, or the unfamiliar being made familiar.
As an artist, I create tools for understanding and interpreting the processes by which different cultures approach each other as a result of travel and communication and are later homogenized, or modified to suit new tastes. Largely integrating visual components of commercial and political design rooted in Asia and North America, the work focuses on the possibilities and limitations of the exchanging of ideas, meanings, and values, and questions the concepts of authorship and authenticity.
Concepts of aesthetic experience that have developed independently of Western tradition have been well documented - today, intercultural processes play a major part in the lives of many Indigenous people that continue to yield expressions that are unique.