“Speaking to Relatives” at the MCA argues that Indigenous objects should be thought of as art rather than the “artifacts” that they are often categorized as. This suggests an entire reordering of art history, elevating Native American art.
We all know the answer. It was the free-thinking American and European painters of the mid-20th century, heroes like Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollack and Clyfford Still who get all the credit for helping us see a whole new world of painting when they began emphasizing form and color over figurative imagery.Dyani White Hawk’s “Speaking to Relatives” continues through May 22 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, 1485 Delgany St. Info at 303-298-7554 or mcadenver.org.
Those of us accustomed to encountering work by names like Rothko and Picasso and O’Keeffe in contemporary art museums — but almost never the work of makers from Ingenious tribes in the Northern Plains — will see the similarities in the forms that appear colorfully on her canvases. White Hawk’s “Moccasin” series, from the early 2010s, offers the sharpest example. The artist’s abstract, acrylic-on-canvas works evoke the shapes of this particular footwear and the design patterns associated with traditional decoration of various apparel, blankets and jewelry. These decorations recall Native American arrangements of thread, beads and fabric, but they are rendered in sharp lines and hard edges and reduced to rectangles and circles.
But, while those painters’ work relied heavily on hard edges — very clear lines and divisions between colors that give the works a non-human coldness — White Hawk has a wider repertoire, and she shows it in later works from her “Quiet Strength“ series, which are on display in the show. For these pieces, White Hawk uses tiny brush strokes, multitudes of them, to represent the intricate and minute patterns of beadwork and porcupine quillwork historically practiced by Native women.
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