BC artist talk: Robert Davidson @ Seattle Art Museum Wednesday February 5th @ 7 -8pm Join Haida artist Robert Davidson as he discusses his work in SAMs current exhibition This stunning show, Robert Davidson: Abstract Impulse, of contemporary Native American art closes February 16, 2014! ........... Make your way to the Seattle Art Museum to see it before it travels to the Smithonians National Museum of the American Indian, New York. Robert Davidson has been a pivotal figure in the Northwest Coast Native art renaissance since 1969, when he erected the first totem pole in his ancestral Massett village since the 1880s. For over 40 years he has mastered Haida art traditions by studying the great works of his great-grandfather Charles Edenshaw and others. ................ More recently, Davidson has interjected his own interpretation of the old forms with forays into abstraction, explored in boldly minimalistic easel paintings, graphic works and sculpture, where images are pared to essential lines, elemental shapes and strong colors. The exhibition will feature 45 paintings, sculptures and prints created since 2005, as well as key images from earlier in his career that show Davidson’s evolution toward an elemental language of form.
Posted on: Sat, 01 Feb 2014 08:58:42 +0000
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