Edgar Heap of Birds: Punctures
On view January 21st - March 4th
The opening reception will be on January 21st, beginning at 7 pm and is open to the public.
K Art is pleased to announce Edgar Heap of Birds: Punctures, a solo exhibition by multi-disciplinary artist Edgar Heap of Birds (Cheyenne and Arapaho Nation), surveying his Native Host signs, recent primary and ghost print works, and Neuf paintings.
The Native Hosts project is an ongoing series of public art interventions that have been deployed throughout the United States and Canada for over 20 years.
These expressions of honoring indigenous citizens from communities both ancient and contemporary seek to educate the non-Native public as to what tribal grounds and histories they may be walking over and truly where everyone on the continent sleeps each night.
The reversal or backward treatment of the colonial names of states and provinces found on each Native Hosts panel is meant to turn around the state or province and their occupants to see this original Native world in a new manner.
Seneca, 2019
Edgar Heap of Birds: Punctures
Cheyenne Nation Holiday, 2000 - 2016
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Neuf for Oahu 1, 2021
Neuf for Oahu 2, 2021
Neuf for Oahu 3, 2021
Neuf for Oahu 4, 2021
An NDN Home, a striking 7-foot-tall and 30-foot-long installation stretches across the gallery’s Main Wall. The collection comprises 24 primary monoprints and 24 ghost prints that sit together in a sequence. The latter mirrors the former in a vanishing sequence.
For Heap of Birds, this is a metaphor of Native Americans in contemporary society -- they are faint and mere apparitions to an unaware audience due to a bloodied history.
His comparison, coupled with the misunderstanding that Native people and culture are of the past, are contemporary realities highlighted by the artist, who offers a new dialogue in enriched hues of crimson, brick, and vermillion.
An NDN Home, 2018
Born in 1954 in Wichita, Kansas, Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds (Cheyenne and Arapaho Nation) is a multi-disciplinary artist, advocate, and educator. In addition to his professorship at the University of Oklahoma from 1988 to 2018, his artwork and words have raised awareness of Native history, modern-day controversies, and land acknowledgment for over forty years. Renowned for his Native Host signs, Heap of Birds utilized the public signage staple to vocalize and respect the land's original inhabitants. He investigates different communication planes with rag paper monoprints, creating primary and ghost prints to dissect cultural perspectives.
Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds has been honored with solo exhibitions at institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art PS1, New York; Honolulu Museum of Art, Hawaii; The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia; the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia; the Berkeley Art Museum, California; the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, New York; and the Association for Visual Arts Museum, Cape Town, South Africa. He has been included in numerous group exhibitions including at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Denver Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, The Peabody Essex Museum, and The Museum of Modern Art in New York; and in international biennials such as SITE Santa Fe, La Biennale di Venezia, and Documenta. He has also created significant commissions for the Walker Art Center and Public Art Fund. Heap of Birds has received awards and grants from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and The Rockefeller Foundation.
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