The Berlin Gallery Announces Spring 2008 Schedule
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The Berlin Gallery at the Heard Museum Shop, in Phoenix Arizona, is the premier destination for contemporary American Indian art and currently represents 17 of America’s finest Indigenous artists. The Berlin Gallery provides a unique experience for collectors and first-time buyers.
The Berlin Gallery is pleased to announce its Spring 2008 schedule.
Addressing themes of history, love, confusion and loss, painter and sculptor Gregory Lomayesva, Hopi/Spanish, will be highlighted in the month of February. Lomayesva’s large-scale paintings and woodcarvings dip into the contemporary zeitgeist of sampling and appropriation. Drawing imagery and ideas from his Hopi and Hispanic heritage, Lomayesva’s work takes a wry look at American popular culture and possesses an aesthetic sensibility that combines abstract imagery with razor-sharp observations.
Also exhibiting in February is Doug Hyde, Nez Perce/Assiniboine/Chippewa. Hyde is a recognized leader among American Indian sculptors. He attended the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he worked and studied under the late renowned Apache sculptor Allan Houser. Like Houser, Hyde works with a wide array of materials including alabaster and bronze. As an artist, Hyde emphasizes works that accurately represent their subject matter. From images evoked by oral tradition to those reflecting the contemporary American Indian, his work exudes strength and beauty.
In March, painter Steven Yazzie, Navajo/Laguna Pueblo, will be highlighted. Yazzie’s use of color and subject matter set him apart from other painters of his generation. Yazzie combines several different elements in his work: a trenchant political sensibility, a certain irreverence of character and a black sense of humor. Yazzie has described his work as somewhat autobiographical, drawn from personal experience. “My work embeds American Indian geopolitical narratives within a contemporary landscape of American popular culture and consumerism,” he says.
Also exhibiting in March is leading American Indian artist Joe Feddersen, Colville Confederated Tribes, who lives in the Inland Plateau region of the Columbia Basin. Feddersen’s work investigates home, tradition and relationship to the land. The master printer and glass artist creates a conduit of landscape images of the Northwest and traditional basket designs from his home with urban imagery found within modern
industrial structures.
Cherokee painter Kay Walkingstick’s work has been exhibited across the world, and her paintings are included in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection. Walkingstick is the first American Indian to be included in the definitive History of Art by Anthony Janson. Her work deals with issues of mixed ancestry, the balance between land and space, and the relationship between the physical and spiritual self. Walkingstick will be highlighted in the Berlin Gallery during the month of April.
The Berlin Gallery also represents Norman Akers, John Hoover, Fritz Scholder, Allan Houser, Roxanne Swentzell, Will Wilson, Rosemary Lonewolf, Tony Jojola, Marcus Zilliox, Nora Naranjo-Morse, Sarah Sense and Brian Miller.
To view work and biographies of all artists represented by the Berlin Gallery, visit http://www.BerlinGallery.org
For further information contact:
Kate Crowley
602.251.0283
kcrowley@heard.org
Above image is a collage of work by several artists, from the left: Nora Noranjo Morse, Tewa, “Family of Potters, #2,” Taos and Santa Clara clay; Steven Yazzie, Navajo/Laguna Pueblo, “Canyon Land,” acrylic and pencil on canvas; Gregory Lomayesva, Hopi/Spanish, “Untitled (Parrot #2),” acrylic on canvas; Will Wilson, Navajo, “Auto Immune Response #8,” archival black and white inkjet print; Tony Jojola, Isleta Pueblo & Rosemary Lonewolf, Santa Clara Pueblo, “Make Mine Maraschino,” blown glass and clay.