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Artist Exhibitions:
1. "Old & New Tales of Native
America" at Beacon Street
Gallery Chicago IL. June 7-
July 5, 2002.
2. "The Power of Image, to
Educate or Miseducate, phase
II" Mitchell Museum of the
American Indian, Evanston IL.
January – April 2001.
Co-curator for a
social/political art exhibit
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Artist Reviews:
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Collections:
Mitchell Museum of the
American Indian, Evanston IL
Institute of American Indian
Arts Museum, Santa FE, NM
Goodwin Family, Chicago, IL
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Artist Statement for Chris Pappan
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Throughout my formal education I have utilized the visual arts to support my cultural and human development. As an alumnus of the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe NM, I was exposed to diverse perspectives and mediums from numerous Native American tribes. Together, through the arts, "we" developed an explicit and provocative voice, to identify and address historical & contemporary issues in Indian country. As an artist, I have sought out opportunities within various Native American communities, to continue to expose and motivate the new generation of Indian artists, and to enlist their art making capacity as a tool for self-determination. Since my relocation to Chicago, and struggling for a few years to find a "voice", I have been inspired by the urban environment to create a thematic body of work entitled Native American Lowbrow Art. This illustrates the assimilation and acculturation process Native American artists negotiate with and through, as we address the issue of "What makes us ‘Indians’, and why is that important" in today’s popular culture and history. Through the deconstruction and inclusion of traditional symbols, economics, identity, and spirituality, it is my intent to challenge the politics of art criticism, aesthetics and the homogenization and anthropological representations imposed on Native American people and challenge the viewers knowledge based on what they "think" they know about Indian people. These pieces consist of illustrative or cartoon-like images on non-traditional (and traditional) surfaces such as bone, hides, wood, etc. Dealing with racial stereotypes, history, consumerism and identity issues, this work illustrates my critical observations of the cause and effect of "Displaced Peoples", and the realities of juxtaposing Indian oral traditions/ images as they assimilate and transform with popular culture.
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