I Am of the Land
12”x 9”x 3”
Bronze, Encaustic, patina on board
Available
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MA Doran Gallery
3509 S. Peoria Avenue | Tulsa, OK 74105 | 918.748.8700
I Am of the Land
Project Type: Portfolio
If Only
If Only
12”x 5”x 3.5”
Bronze, cedar, sterling silver, patina
12”x 5”x 3.5”
Bronze, cedar, sterling silver, patina
Available
For inquiries, please contact:
MA Doran Gallery
3509 S. Peoria Avenue | Tulsa, OK 74105 | 918.748.8700
MA Doran Gallery
3509 S. Peoria Avenue | Tulsa, OK 74105 | 918.748.8700
What Was, What Is, What Will Be
What Was, What Is, What Will Be
2024, 75″ x 40″x 40″, Steel, Nylon
Created as a site-specific for the Rotunda Gallery at Montclair Art Museum. This work is delicate dance shawl fringe that encircles an 1896 marble figure by sculptor William Couper, “Crown for the Victor (Beauty’s Wreath for Valor’s Brow)” (1896), that had been in the gallery for the last 20 years. The shawl fringe is a way to layer my Delaware Lenape history and that of the sculpture showing both our histories together.
For inquiries, please contact:
The Studio
Mustang, OK 73064 | 405.308.0239
Within We Are the Light
Within We Are the Light
38”x28”x 28”, Clay, Blown Glass, Bronze, Sterling Silver, Steel, Wood
Within We Are the Light, is based on talking to my son about his excitement and his future, I recorded these thoughts while he was sleeping as I was drove him to his first year of college.
It is from within that we are the light it is from within that we are the future
His chest open, exposing the vulnerabilities and his hope.
Little shards of Clay fill his body, they are pieces of possibilities. Some are parts of his history and some are parts of his story yet untold. They surround and cradle the Blown glass held in the arms of the branch that grows from within him the branch giving a Scissor Tail Flycatcher rest on a limb. Their shared perseverance, endurance, and inner strength a piece of home.
Available
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The Studio
Mustang, OK 73064 | 405.308.0239
Exhibition History
- The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Oct 5 – Dec 31, 2024)
Bloodline, Keeper of the Seeds
Bloodline, Keeper of the Seeds
2021, 30″ x 98″ x 18″ in, Unique cast bronze with patina, cedar, and steel
It is a matriarchal society that my family lineage comes from; the woman cared for the children and the stories of their family. They told the history and planted the seeds for the next generation. Their lives, my life, and that of my daughter are full of the twists and turns that women hold in our society.
The Cigar Figures come from a childhood Native American story that my mother told of the “Stick People.” The “Stick People” would run through the night and call your name; if you went with them, you were never heard from again. She never described the figures, and I was always drawn to the idea of what they looked like. The Cigar Figures are my reimagining of that story, now a story of family and my past—a complicated narrative of loss, survival, and resilience. The figures are made from real cigars and found sticks, all cast in bronze. The faces are of the ancestors and family shaped from the idea of a cameo or silhouette painting to capture the faces of the families.
When hung, the light casts a shadow of the figures on the wall. This shadow represents memory for me. Like a shadow, these memories cannot be held, and in the end, we are all only a shadow in history, shadows on this earth.
Sold
In the collection of the Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State, University Park, Pennsylvania
Exhibition History
- To Take Shape and Meaning, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina (March 2–July 28, 2024)
- EXPO Chicago 2023, Center for Native Futures, Chicago Illinois (April 13-16, 2023)
- Upturned Flower That Travels, The Volland Store, Alma, Kansas (November 6 – December 5, 2021 )
Bloodline Keeper of the Seed
installed at Volland
Bloodline Keeper of the Seed
Installed at The Volland Store
I Am More than Fluff
I Am More than Fluff
Unique Cast Bronze, Patina, Glass, Brass, and Feathers, 14” x 6” x 6”, 2022
I am more than the view that my people are frozen in time, lost to a romanticized ideal of who the Native Americans were, we are more, and we are still here. I am not this fluff; I am here; I am loud and larger than life.
In the collection of the Penn Museum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Pennsylvania
Exhibition History
- The Thread that Connects, Spiva Center for the Arts, Joplin Missouri (January 14 – March 4)
- On Turtle’s Back, Pauly Friedman Art Gallery, Misericordia University, Dallas, Pennsylvania (September 8 – October 11, 2022)
Stories of the Matriarchs
Stories of the Matriarchs
Unique Cast Bronze, Patina, Reclaimed Rocking Chair Leg
10.75” x 31.75” x 3”, 2023
The figures are five generations of women: granddaughter, daughter, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother. The base they walk on is from a rocking chair that my mother gave to me. Looking at the leg of the rocker I remember holding and singing my children to sleep, watching them drift off and dream. In the rocker I would tell them stories and I was honored to hold in my arms the next generation, that next life and dream with them the many yet untold stories they would create and tell their children.
The Cigar Figures come from a childhood Native American story that my mother told of the “Stick People.” The “Stick People” would run through the night and call your name; if you went with them, you were never heard from again. She never described the figures, and I was always drawn to the idea of what they looked like. The Cigar Figures are my reimagining of that story, now a story of family and my past—a complicated narrative of loss, survival, and resilience. The figures are made from real cigars and found sticks, all cast in bronze. The faces are of the ancestors and family shaped from the idea of a cameo or silhouette painting to capture the faces of the families.
When hung, the light casts a shadow of the figures on the wall. This shadow represents memory for me. Like a shadow, these memories cannot be held, and in the end, we are all only a shadow in history, shadows on this earth.
Sold
For inquiries, please contact:
7040 E. Main Street | Scottsdale, Arizona 85251 | 480.941.8500 | www.BonnerDavid.com
Hope in the Eyes of a Fawn
Hope in the Eyes of a Fawn
Unique Cast Bronze, Patina, Cedar
19” x 8.5” x 8”, 2023
Available
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7040 E. Main Street | Scottsdale, Arizona 85251 | 480.941.8500 | www.BonnerDavid.com
Newa: Four
Newa: Four
Unique Cast Bronze, Patina, Reclaimed Boxcar Wood
9.5” x 12.25” x 2.25”, 2023
Newa is the Delaware Lenape word for the number four. This family of newa walks on a base that is cut from the floor of a train boxcar. There is history held in this floor of marks, lines made, and the secrets held inside; like that of family’s and the history held inside each of us marking our life on this earth.
The Cigar Figures come from a childhood Native American story that my mother told of the “Stick People.” The “Stick People” would run through the night and call your name; if you went with them, you were never heard from again. She never described the figures, and I was always drawn to the idea of what they looked like. The Cigar Figures are my reimagining of that story, now a story of family and my past—a complicated narrative of loss, survival, and resilience. The figures are made from real cigars and found sticks, all cast in bronze. The faces are of the ancestors and family shaped from the idea of a cameo or silhouette painting to capture the faces of the families.
When hung, the light casts a shadow of the figures on the wall. This shadow represents memory for me. Like a shadow, these memories cannot be held, and in the end, we are all only a shadow in history, shadows on this earth.
Sold
For inquiries, please contact:
7040 E. Main Street | Scottsdale, Arizona 85251 | 480.941.8500 | www.BonnerDavid.com
Three Sisters
Three Sisters
Unique Cast Bronze, Patina, Maple Wood
21” x 7.75” x 2.75”, 2023
SOLD
For inquiries, please contact:
MA Doran Gallery
3509 S. Peoria Avenue | Tulsa, OK 74105 | 918.748.8700