To celebrate its 50th anniversary, the Rockwell Museum in Corning, NY presents an exhibition highlighting its sustained, dedicated commitment to collecting Contemporary Native Art since its founding.
Contemporary.
Native.
Art.
Art every bit as Contemporary as it is Native. Contemporary with a capital “C.”
All art is contemporary when it’s made, this art is additionally Contemporary in how it is in part informed and inspired by and created to be in dialogue with global trends and conversations in Contemporary art.
To celebrate its 50th anniversary, the Rockwell Museum in Corning, NY presents an exhibition highlighting its sustained, dedicated commitment to collecting Contemporary Native Art since its founding. Art as Contemporary as it is Native.
“This is the cutting edge of art in the U.S. right now,” Amanda Lett, The Rockwell’s curator of exhibitions and collections, told Forbes.com in a Zoom interview. “It talks about everything. It’s powerful. It’s surprising. It’s exciting. It’s everything you want to see when you go see an art show.”
Native art that doesn’t look “Native”–not like the stereotypes.
No buckskin. No fringe.
No paintings of stoic elders in headdresses. No jacked-up, galloping warriors wielding bow and arrow. No Indian maidens.
“The works in this show are representative of Native artists breaking out of that stereotypical box (of) what people think (Native art is) supposed to be,” Randee Spruce (Seneca Nation, Heron Clan), an independent curator who aided in the exhibition, told Forbes.com in a Zoom interview. “These Native artists are telling their stories. It’s modern-day storytelling through contemporary ideas and contemporary materials.”
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Image caption: Zig Jackson (Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, b. 1957), ‘Buffalo Enclosure, Golden Gate Park (Entering Zig’s Indian Reservation),’ 1997-1998, silver gelatin print, 14¼ × 18 in. Clara S. Peck Fund. 2001.13.1