Esoteric Echoes

  Crossroads, 2020. Gerald Stone (Seminole/Cherokee) Acrylic Due to COVID-19 The Crocker Art Museum is still closed in accordance with county and state health orders.  But there is still virtual activity happening at the museum, Crocker presents an exhibition of regional Native American artists  Multiple Horizons: Native Perspectives at the Crossroads . https://www.crockerart.org/collections/multiplehorizons?page=1 Sacramento water ways has been a crossroad of trade and gatherings to the indigenous people of the land.  The Crocker Art Musuem is built on Nisenan territory, the Sacramento local Native artists want their work to give the viewers a greater standpoint of contemporary tribal life.   https://youtu.be/URAPsXDr1P4  (Video 12:24 minutes) Knife 1, Knife 2, Knife 3, 2019. Jeremy Peconom Traditional Mt. Maidu Utilitarian Art We are first introduced to Jeremy Peconom, who is a traditional mountain Maidu artist.  He prefers his work to be seen as utilitarian art, this implies the k

Nathalia Edenmont - Nobel https://www.nancyhoffmangallery.com/nhg-video Duration (1:29 Minutes)      Nathalia Edenmont was born in 1970, Yalta, former USSR, now she lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden. Nathalia mostly photographs women and butterflies but in the images she has made a dress consisting of thousands of beetles and grasshoppers accessorized with a necklace of butterflies. The woman subject is a "Queen with no King". Edenmont discusses the passing of her mother at the age of 14 leaving her with vivid images of "nature possessing her body", through this experience the viewer is able to see a connection between the proud strong woman accepting the courses of nature.