Fritz Scholder: Indian/Not Indian
Date: Tuesday, November 11th
Time: 10:00am - 5:00pm
Location: National Museum of the American Indian (One Bowling Green adjacent to the northeast corner of Battery Park)
Cost: Free
"Fritz Scholder: Indian/Not Indian is one part of a two-city career retrospective devoted to the late Fritz Scholder (1937-2005, Luiseño), an expressionist painter and sculptor who, beginning in 1960s, reimagined the depiction of Native Americans. In so doing, Scholder became an immensely successful but controversial artist who forever changed how Native Americans could be portrayed. The Heye Center’s exhibition comprises 28 paintings, sculptures, and monotypes that illustrate a lesser known side of the artist’s oeuvre, referencing the erotic and the unconscious, created over nearly three decades. Dominating the presentation, symbolically and literally, is an eight-foot tall bronze sculpture entitled Future Clone (1999). This androgynous angel figure, its wings, face, and globe washed white, is perched atop the marble foyer of the former Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House." The National Museum of the American Indian is one of my favorite places in NYC. No matter the exhibit, this museum is free every and all day. This exhibit runs through August 2009.
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