Join us June 10 from 6 pm - 10 pm with the artist for an opening reception at K Art Gallery.

K Art is pleased to present Reservation for One, a solo exhibition of works by multimedia artist Frank Buffalo Hyde (Onondaga). With an array of works ranging from music and writing to artmaking, the artist has focused primarily on painting, with the influences of music and history being critical to his approach. Inspired by the works of T.C. Cannon and Fritz Scholder, and through his experiences with other artists, he has developed a satirical, pop-art style and palette.  Reservation for One is the artist’s first solo exhibition in New York and on Haudenosaunee land. 

Reservation for One is a view into Buffalo Hyde’s humorous universe, where buffalo flee from flying saucers and where Degas meets Picasso. By no means a retrospective, this exhibition surveys many of the artist’s ongoing series, such as Buffalo Fields Forever and Epochs.  It investigates themes of sovereignty, popular culture, and technology, and where these concepts might intersect. 

He invites us to question how capitalism has affected cultural identity and explore how mainstream media views Native Americans. You might even ask yourself if aliens are our friend or foe.

Reservation for One is Frank Buffalo Hyde’s definition of a contemporary Indigenous Artist.

Featured on K ART Gallery’s Second Level will be eight pieces by Fritz Scholder

Fritz Scholder (La Jolla Band of Luiseno Indians) swore that he would never paint Indians.  He broke that promise in the late 1960s with the goal of depicting “real” Indians, not the romanticized and fetishized images of Native people that had defined the genre.

Scholder’s new works were loaded and initially polarizing – some said he had singlehandedly destroyed Indian art, while others saw him as leading the “New Indian Art” movement.  As noted by Kent Logan, he “popped the balloon” when he painted Indian with Beer Can in 1969.  Since that time, Scholder has become universally known, collected, exhibited, and widely viewed as a pioneer of contemporary Native art.

K Art is pleased to exhibit all eight lithographs from Scholder’s first print folio, Indians Forever, which was produced between December 1970 and March 1971 at the Tamarind Institute in Albuquerque.  Only 75 editions of this first major project by Scholder were produced, which was the first significant production completed at the Tamarind Institute upon its arrival in Albuquerque.  The eight lithographs on display are from edition 57 of this suite.