Space Makers: Indigenous Expression And A New American Art
Space Makers: Indigenous Expression and a New American Art examines the mid-century American art movement known as the Indian Space Painters and the relationship between those non-Native painters, the Indigenous visual and material culture that inspired them, and the artists from the modern Native art movement who expanded upon such creative explorations through their own visual heritage.
Investigating these relationships for the first time, Space Makers reconfigures the history of American art and reveals its foundations in Indigenous space 鈥� aesthetically, geographically, and socio-politically. The free, focus exhibition features loans from the Charles and Valerie Diker collection, one of the nation鈥檚 preeminent collections of the underrecognized Indian Space Painting movement, and is guest curated by Christopher T. Green, PhD, Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History at Swarthmore College.
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Space Makers: Indigenous Expression and a New American Art examines the mid-century American art movement known as the Indian Space Painters and the relationship between those non-Native painters, the Indigenous visual and material culture that inspired them, and the artists from the modern Native art movement who expanded upon such creative explorations through their own visual heritage.
Investigating these relationships for the first time, Space Makers reconfigures the history of American art and reveals its foundations in Indigenous space 鈥� aesthetically, geographically, and socio-politically. The free, focus exhibition features loans from the Charles and Valerie Diker collection, one of the nation鈥檚 preeminent collections of the underrecognized Indian Space Painting movement, and is guest curated by Christopher T. Green, PhD, Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History at Swarthmore College.
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The Indian Space Painters were not Indians. They were a short-lived group of white painters working in New York in the late 1940s.
Visually dense and conceptually expansive, 鈥淪pace Makers: Indigenous Expression and a New American Art鈥� surveys multiple movements and styles often absent from museums of American art.
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