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Urban Skins & Ancient Kin
December 11, 2013 – May 18, 2024 (extended date)
Brooklyn Heights Public Library
286 Cadman Plaza W, Brooklyn, NY 11201
exhibition open during library hours
opening reception, Thursday December 14, 5:30-7:30 pm
with artist introduction to the exhibition artworks at 6pm
and ampitheater slideshow on display all evening.
Reception is open to the public.
This exhibition is presented as part of the BKPL Heritage Ambassador program
Disrupting the Matrix
December 1, 2023 – March 13, 2024
Elder Gallery,
Charlotte, NC
Re-Connections: In Kinship with Nature
November 30, 2023 – January 15, 2024
group exhibition at the United Nations Gallery,
United Nations, NYC
Artists: Kim Abeles, Maria Antelman, Olive Ayhens, Mandy Barker, Edward Burtynsky, Catherine Chalmers, Elizabeth Demaray, Kris Graves, Todd Gray, Tanya Harnett, Valerie Hegarty, Betsy Kenyon, Oskar Landi, Christopher Lin, David Maisel, Lenore Malen, Mary Mattingly, Garth Meyer, Bebonkwe/Jude Norris, George Osodi, Laziza Rakhimova, Aurora Robson, Alexis Rockman, David Benjamin Sherry, Tattfoo Tan, Marion Wilson
Material.Culture.
Friday, September 16 — Monday, December 19, 2022
Opening reception Friday, September 16, 2022 6 – 9pm
McColl Center 721 N Tryon Street, Charlotte NC
(Artist-in-Residence 4 person group show)
April 22 – June 15, 2022 virtual exhibition at the United Nations
Artists: Maria Antelman, David Benjamin, Matthew Brandt, Edward Burtynsky, Mandy Barker, Catherine Chalmers, Kris Graves, Tanya Harnett, Valerie Hegarty, Betsy Kenyon, Zanele Muholi, Todd Gray, Christopher Lin, Oskar Landi, Mary Mattingly, Richard Mosse, David Maisel, Lenore Malen, Alexis Rockman, Garth Meyer, Bebonkwe/Jude Norris, George Osodi, Aurora Robson, Tattfoo Tan, Christy Rupp, Alexei Volkov, Studio “Kanaki” & Ekaterina Kovshova, Emerson Uýra, Marion Wilson, Laziza Rakhimova
May 7 – June 4, 2022
Opening reception Saturday May 7, 2022 3 – 5pm
May 6 – June 18, 2022
Open Thursday – Sunday 12 – 7pm
Opening reception Friday May 6, 2022 6 – 10pm
Closing reception Saturday June 18, 2022 6 – 10pm
30 Washington Street, Brooklyn (lower level)
Winter Brown
paintings from the interTribal & nikihk series
weekends, July 13 – August 25, 2019
The Admiral’s House, Governors Island, NYC
presented by the American Indian Community House
artist talk august 4, 2pm
reception to follow 3 – 5pm
exhibition open saturdays & sundays 11am – 5pm
‘Paintings from the intertribal and nikihk series’, an exhibition of paintings by Winter Brown, is currently on view at The American Indian Community House’s summer location at the Admiral’s House on Governors Island in New York.
Winter Brown / ᐱᐳᐣ ᐅᓵᐃ (pi-poun oh-sih-weh) is a contemporary Plains Cree/Metis Nation artist from Alberta, Canada, predominantly based in Brooklyn since 2006. Winter has worked in a variety of media, combining traditional with hi-tech, organic with digital to create work that reflects that’s highly contemporary yet informed by and infused ancient Indigenous cultural teachings, perspective, experience and aesthetic.
In recent years the artist has made a shift in her practice, concentrating on the creation of abstract paintings. Winter’s paintings reclaim and continue the vibrant, sophisticated, community-centered and ever-evolving creative legacy of Indigenous women, particularly as it pertains to the use of abstraction amongst plains tribes, and its largely unacknowledged influence on America abstraction.
This exhibition features a selection of paintings from two series in this new body of work. These series have commonalities in both aesthetic and cultural content and concerns, while containing differences in media and technical approach. Both series incorporate evolutions of pan-tribal geometries and adornment in combination with expressionistic grounds expressive of both the natural world and urban environments. The circle is a central geometry in all the works in the exhibition, reflecting feminine-centric Native cultural paradigms and knowledge.
Works in the interTribal series are painted in acrylic, yet part of their process uses digital software. Most of the nikihk series (nikihk meaning ‘home’ in Plains Cree) are constructed from photos of urban walls (often taken with a smartphone). These photos are digitally collaged, re/rendered, combined (with other walls, themselves or other imagery) and otherwise morphed and reconfigured to create dynamic digital artworks that are often read as paintings. Some nikihk series pieces feature hand-painted geometries, others contain three dimensional, mounted materials, another extension of tribal adornment which has run throughout Winter’s 2 & 3d work for many years, and brings these paintings into the realm of sculpture.
The artist’s intention is always to create work that contains what is traditionally called ‘good medicine’. She combines and entwines visual, metaphoric and energetic elements to create paintings that can uplift the viewer through their aesthetics, physicality and presence, and simultaneously usurp restrictive notions about Native culture and expression as being something stereotypical, safe and/or unchangng.
Winter Brown studied fine arts at Middlesex University and Kensington and Chelsea College in London (UK) and OCAD in Toronto (Canada), as well as apprenticing in traditional First Nations art forms and cultural/ceremonial practices with highly respected tradional artists and medicine people. Winter is a recipient of the prestigious Chalmer’s Arts Fellowship, has received awards from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council. Her work has been exhibited, screened, and performed internationally.
Winter Brown is also known as Jude Norris and Kehiyow Tatakwan Awasis.
email winter@winter-brown.com for more info
www.Winter-Brown.com
instagram @WinterBrownArt
