{"id":764,"date":"2019-12-02T13:41:45","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T19:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/160-gallery\/?page_id=764"},"modified":"2024-04-17T15:29:40","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T20:29:40","slug":"everything-weve-ever-been-everything-we-are-right-now","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/gallery\/pastexhibits\/2019-20\/everything-weve-ever-been-everything-we-are-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything We’ve Ever Been, Everything We are Right Now"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Violence of Blood Quantum, Half Human (Animal), Half human (Animal) after James Luna,
2019.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Nicholas Galanin<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Everything We’ve Ever Been, Everything We are Right Now<\/i><\/b><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Opening Reception<\/strong>
Friday, September 20th
6\u20139 pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Necessary Action: Activism and Artistic Practice<\/strong>
Panel Discussion
Tuesday, September 24th
7\u20139 pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hewitt Hall Room M113
Janet Wallace Fine Art Center
Macalester College<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Nicholas Galanin’s practice, activism for land and human rights is front and center. At times this intersects with his artistic career, as it did in the recent protest of the Whitney Biennial, where he and 7 other artists leveraged their work\u2019s withdrawal to effectively cause the resignation of board member Warren B. Kanders. Joined by Twin Cities artists Jonathan Herrera Soto, Jim Denomie and Angela Two Stars, Dyani White Hawk Polk will moderate a conversation sure to ignite discussion on the role that activism plays in artists practices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About the Exhibition <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Artist Nicholas Galanin\u2019s (Y\u00e9il Ya-Tseen) broad and ranging studio practice is one of simultaneous resistance and creation. In his work, Galanin offers \u201ca perspective rooted in connection to land and an intentionally broad engagement with contemporary culture.\u201d Galanin strategically \u201cembeds incisive observations\u201d and critical thought into his work, \u201cinvestigating and expanding intersections of culture and concept in form, image and sound.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Throughout his practice Galanin addresses the \u201cimpacts of pervasive capitalism, the continuation of colonization of human and non-human bodies, and misrepresentation and misappropriation of Indigenous culture,\u201d in an effort to \u201cevidence these damages.\u201d In his exhibition, Everything We\u2019ve Ever Been, Everything We Are Right Now<\/em>, Galanin \u201cdisrupts outside definitions, limitations and representations of Indigenous culture, while illuminating and celebrating the value of Indigenous knowledge, aesthetics and continuum.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through diverse media \u2014 including jewelry, carving, video, sculpture, photography, music, installation, performance, works on paper and hide \u2014 Galanin creates for his \u201cIndigenous and non-Indigenous communities while rejecting attempts to place living cultural work in the past.\u201d He states, \u201cMy totemic carving is as contemporary as my video work; each speaks to contemporary concerns in different contexts.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His forthcoming exhibition at the Law Warschaw Gallery provides a thoughtful and critically Indigenous lens to view contemporary American culture and its complexity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About the Artist<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nicholas Galanin (Tlingit-Unangax\u0302) has shown his work internationally, including recent exhibitions at the Native American Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, the Honolulu Biennial, the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (Santa Fe, NM), Crystal Bridges Museum of Contemporary Art (Bentonville, AR), the Northern Norway Art Museum (Troms\u00f8, Norway), and recently received a mid-career retrospective at The Heard Museum<\/a> (Phoenix, AZ). Galanin was selected for inclusion in the 2019 Whitney Biennial<\/a> and, along with seven exhibiting artists, withdrew his participation to draw attention to the Whitney Museum of American Art\u2019s vice chair Warren B. Kanders<\/a>, a purveyor of military weapons and tear gas, and to demonstrate solidarity with activist efforts impacted by these weapons. Their protest ultimately led to Kanders\u2019 resignation and the reinstatement of the artists\u2019 work in the exhibition<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Galanin has apprenticed with master carvers and jewelers, earned his BFA at London Guildhall University in Jewelry Design, and his MFA in Indigenous Visual Arts at Massey University in New Zealand. He currently lives and works with his family in Sitka, Alaska. <\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nicholas Galanin Everything We’ve Ever Been, Everything We are Right Now Opening ReceptionFriday, September 20th6\u20139 pm Necessary Action: Activism and Artistic PracticePanel DiscussionTuesday, September 24th7\u20139 pm Hewitt Hall Room M113Janet Wallace Fine Art CenterMacalester College In Nicholas Galanin’s practice, activism for land and human rights is front and center. At times this intersects with his […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":762,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-764","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=764"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1587,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/764\/revisions\/1587"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}