Wendy Red Star at the Gorman Museum

Award-winning artist Wendy Red Star will be giving a public artist’s lecture about her artwork and practice. In conjunction with her solo exhibition at the C.N. Gorman Museum, Red Star creates complex photographic works and futuristic powwow regalia to interrogate the main stream. Her work layers influences from her tribal background (Crow), daily surroundings, aesthetic experiences, collected ephemera, and conjured histories that are both real and imagined. Through her artworks new universes are built, simultaneously urban-rural and high-low with their own language of symbols created from such seemingly disparate sites as rez cars, powwow culture, proliferative indigenous commoditization, and Red Star’s personal collection of memories growing up on the Crow Indian reservation.