VoCA Talk showcases the dialogue between artist G. Peter Jemison (Seneca, Heron Clan) and Andrea R. Hanley (Navajo), delving into Jemison's illustrious career, artistic methods, activism, and cultural contributions. Held at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum in September 2023, the conversation delves into the essence of Jemison's art, particularly his naturalistic paintings and creations on brown paper bags, highlighting their deep connection to the traditions of Native American art.
Robyn Tsinnajinnie, A Shared Experience
March 22nd - July 27th, 2024
Tsinnajinnie’s latest body of work is meant to empower her to confront inner struggles, managing anger and fears as a woman in a neglectful world. Through painting, she delves into deeper themes, reclaiming control enabling her to support others with similar feelings, crafting a world and narrative she can joyfully share.
Terran Last Gun, Greatness Ahead, 2023
Terran Last Gun, Saakwaynaamah'kaa (Last Gun)
solo-exhibition
November 3rd, 2023 - February 17th, 2024
Terran Last Gun was born in 1989 in Browning, Montana, which houses the most significant settlement on the Blackfeet Reservation, the Rocky Mountains are visible to the West, with vast flat grasslands to the north and south. Far away to the East, three solitary hills known as Sweet Pine Hills (Katoyiisiks) break up the level land. Drawing influence from these iconic features, Last Gun’s drawings on ledger paper often focus on a single subject.
G. Peter Jemison:
Six Decades at The Armory Show
G. Peter Jemison, Wenitsyoh II, 2008
Signed & Dated, Acrylic on Canvas
K Art Gallery is honored to present G. Peter Jemison: Six Decades at the Armory Show, which features some of Jemison's most prolific and enduring works, such as Wenitsyoh II, 2008, and Indigenous Victims, 1982. Jemison's notable "paper bag" art and rarely exhibited elegant parasols will be showcased.
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART EXHIBITION
The Land Carries Our Ancestors: Contemporary Art by Native Americans
curated by Jaune-Quick-to-See-Smith
Luzene Hill, G. Peter Jemison and Marie Watt join other notable artists for this remarkable exhibit that showcases art by over 50 Native American creators, reflecting a deep bond between Indigenous concepts of land, area, and scenery.
Luzene Hill, Untitled, 2021
Signed
Drawing, ink, charcoal, tea stain and colored pencil on Stonehenge paper
Curated by Smith, the art involves weaving, beading, sculpting, painting, printmaking, drawing, photography, performances, and video, all showcasing an intergenerational sentiment.
G. Peter Jemison featured in the
Art in America Fall 2023: Icons Edition
The article features a special pull-out print of the stolen work, o:nyõ’hsowa:nẽh gowa (Great Pumpkin), a painting Jemison made around 1974.
G. Peter Jemison
o:nyõ’hsowa:nẽh gowa (Great Pumpkin), c. 1974
Heat Wave
July 6th - October 21st, 2023
Saif Azzuz, Matthew Kirk and G. Peter Jemison
Saif Azzuz, noowo'repek' (I Complete A Journey), 2022
Matthew Kirk, A Gift in the Dust, 2023
K Art is pleased to present Heat Wave, a group exhibition highlighting recent works by Matthew Kirk, Saif Azzuz, and established artist, G. Peter Jemison.
Each artist uses unconventional materials in their large-scale practice to speak on pollution, plant life, and climate change, ultimately expressing hopes and fears for the coming generations. Despite differences in studio locations and artistic approaches, a heat wave across the nation can be felt equally.
Slow Lines
featuring the work of Vanessa Dion Fletcher
located in the MRK room
On view May 25th - October 21st, 2023
Tall Loops, 2022
National Gallery of Art
acquires piece by G. Peter Jemison
“The National Gallery of Art has acquired its first work by G. Peter Jemison (Seneca Nation of Indians, Heron Clan, b. 1945), a deeply respected and influential Native American artist. Sentinels (Large Yellow) (2006) reflects the relationship of Native Americans to the land and the continuing stewardship of the Creator’s gifts. By visualizing land-based knowledge systems, Jemison’s art celebrates the multifaceted culture, beliefs, and history of the Haudenosaunee, or Six Nations, that comprise the Iroquois Confederacy.”
For more information, click here.
Sentinels (Large Yellow), 2006, G. Peter Jemision
Foot Trails
On view, ground level,
March 2 - June 29, 2023
Erin Gggadimits Ivalu Gingrich Kivraq 3, 2022 Photograph
Foot Trails features the works of Luzene Hill, Erin Gggaadimits Ivalu Gingrich, Robyn Tsinajinnie, Renelle White Buffalo, and Vanessa Dion Fletcher.
awë:ödö
On view, second level, March 2 - May 18, 2023
awë:ödö is a solo exhibition for acclaimed artist G. Peter Jemison.
G. Peter Jemison Birdhouse Blossom, 1985
The Cadence of Night
Recent work by Duane Slick
Duane Slick, A Certain Cadence of Night #2, 2022
The Cadence of Night presents a grouping of two sets of paintings and prints. One set engages with the artist's interest in the native American trickster, Coyote, through a simple form of portraiture. The second set of larger works engages modernist histories of painting filtered through the lived experience of a Native American Man ( Meskwaki and Ho-Chunk nations). These larger works offer multiple associations of minimalist painting, blanket and textile patterns, digital glitching screens, and shelves. The work is either based in white or based in black. The Exhibition takes its title from the painting," A Certain Cadence of Night II," a 50x40" black stripe painting with subtle washes of green to activate and set a rhythm in the background field. These night paintings are activated with plants and architecture of thin white and red lines. The palette of both the white and black paintings is based on the earth colors worn by traditional dancers from the woodlands of Meskwaki and Ho-Chunk nations.
La Garnison Mentalite
Work by Henry Payer
Through militarization, European expansion-built forts and garrisons where they would claim land and natural resources. The competing colonial forces established trade posts disrupting trading practices by exploiting Indigenous people’s reliance on European materials such as wool and guns. Wool would replace the depleted animal hides used to make shelter, blankets, and clothing. These GI wool blankets were also provided to children taken from Indigenous communities at Government-run boarding schools. Yet the Indigenous act of gifting a blanket through ceremony symbolizes protection on your journey - blankets wrap around you to offer warmth, shielding you against outside elements. Blankets have become an instrument of Indigenous empowerment, resiliency, and survivance.
La Garnison Mentalite are cartographic artworks on GI wool that analyze militarism and colonization from a Ho-Chunk perspective. The act of stretching GI wool over repurposed windows embodies how militarization was used to spread colonialism and historically superimpose Western boundaries and names over the Indigenous view of the land.
Henry Payer, & of the Land, 2017
Both Exhibitions are on view from December 15, 2022 - February 23, 2023
To Learn More About The Cadence of Night; Recent Works by Duane Slick and La Garnison Mentalite click below.
Inside Matri Lines with Luzene Hill
Luzene Hill sits down with K Art’s Federico Rosario and candidly talks about her life, creation process, and solo exhibition, Matri Lines, at K Art.
K Art is pleased to announce the acquisition of works by G. Peter Jemison. Five works were acquired by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and five works were acquired by the Buffalo AKG Art Museum (formerly the Albright-Knox Art Gallery).
NY Times covers Luzene Hill’s To Rise and Begin Again
Luzene Hill’s new sculpture, To Rise and Begin Again, is on view at the USTA Billie Jean National Tennis Center during the U.S. Open as part of the Armory’s Off-Site program. The piece is a series of twenty-seven undulating columns representing the rise, fall, and rise again, of Indigenous languages, and which also alludes to the NYC skyline. At the top of each column is a Cherokee syllabary, a language once thought to be lost.
G. Peter Jemison receives praise in the New York Times for his work in the “Greater New York” MoMA PS1 exhibition
"The Seneca author and artist G. Peter Jemison’s excellent works on paper reference the Canandaigua Treaty of 1794, its impact on the Haudenosaunee — the Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy — and campaigns by churches and schools to eradicate the culture and language in northeast North America.”
“ His use of humble paper bags is what is most exciting about his work.” - Martha Schwendener
Don’t miss Ga’nigöi:yoh: G. Peter Jemison, a six-decade retrospective of this renowned artists works on view at K Art beginning October 22nd
Installation view of works by G. Peter Jemison/Photo by Alex Greenberger/ARTnews
Brought to Light and Orenda
Opening Reception April 30, 2021
