HOW ABOUT… NO
Unique Cast Bronze with Patina
10.25” x 3” x 4”
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Project Type: Studio Works
Sense of Place
Sense of Place
2018, 8”x4”x4″ and 6”x4″x4″, Unique Cast Bronze with Patina and Geode Rock
We strive for human attachment and belonging whether in a place or a sense of self. This boy and girl are not 2 people but oneself, 2 halves of a whole. The geode can reflect the same and when broken open it reveals its sides and secrets hidden within. The figures are not glued to the rock, they are fitted, like a key in a lock. They balance in their stand much like we do in our life.
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In the Collection of The Heritage Center at Red Cloud Indian School, Pine Ridge, South Dakota
Exhibition History
- Holly Wilson: Talk Story, C.N. Gorman Museum, University of California-Davis
(January 9-March 16, 2018)
How Much More Must She Bear
How Much More Must She Bear
2018, 36”x 24”x 4.5”, Crayon, Plexiglas, and Birch
The Bear Girls do not see the color of each other’s skin or limitations that have been placed upon them because of who they are or where they come from. They are in this world together and the possibilities are endless.
While getting my children ready for school we were pulling together pencils, folders, colored pencils, and crayons. The kids began talking about their friends. In the conversation, they were describing the children, “the girl with the yellow hair, the boy with the brown skin,” in a very casually descriptive manner with no malice to the differences. This made me think more about how we see people as we grow older. How we change in our viewpoints and how we judge based on what we see on the surface. We are all the same below, no matter the color, shape, or origin.
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In the Collection of The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS
Enough
ENOUGH
2015, 10.5” x 14.5” x 12.5”, Unique Cast Bronze with Patina
How much is enough? If one is good today then 100 is better, we are overwhelmed by what we have yet we want for more. This girl stands atop boxes of sugary cupcakes that are nothing more than empty, hollow treats.
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In the Collection of: Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis, Indiana
Exhibition History
- Four by Four 2016: Midwest Invitational Exhibition, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Missouri (September 10 – December 4, 2016)
- Conversations: Eiteljorg Native Art Fellowship, Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis IN (November 14, 2015-February 14, 2016)
Mother
MOTHER
2011, 63”x 31”x 24”, Unique Cast Bronze with Patina, Poplar, Steel
Mothers often act as a balancing force in our world. This figure acts as an archetype of all mothers. She sits balanced upon a piece of poplar wood. Her position seems precarious but is secure and necessary, creation of equilibrium.
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MA Doran Gallery
3509 S. Peoria Avenue | Tulsa, OK 74105 | 918.748.8700
Exhibition History
- On Turtle’s Back, Museum of Contemporary Native Art, Santa Fe NM (May 25 2018-January 27, 2019)
- Holly Wilson: Talk Story, C.N. Gorman Museum, University of California-Davis (January 9-March 16, 2018)
- SFA Alumni Exhibition, The Cole Art Center, Nacogdoches, Texas (October 27, 2016 –January 14, 2017)
- Conversations: Eiteljorg Native Art Fellowship, Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis IN (November 14, 2015-February 14, 2016)
Belonging
BELONGING
2014, 9.5″ x 10″ x 6″, Unique Cast Bronze with Patina, and Geode Rock
“Belonging” we are always looking for that feeling of belonging that sense of a key in a lock. The geode I broke open revealing two sides. Here I have a boy and a girl, I see them as masculine and feminine in us all. The figures here are fitted to that geode when they are still in wax; they are not glued they are keyed to the rock that they belong, two sides of the self two halves of a whole.
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In the Collection of Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis, Indiana
Exhibition History
- Conversations: Eiteljorg Native Art Fellowship, Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis IN (November 14, 2015-February 14, 2016)
Father and Son: Cigar Figures
Father and Son: Cigar Figures
2015, 20″ x 11″ x 3.5″, Unique Cast Bronze with Patina, and Wood
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Flight
FLIGHT
2012, 13” x 12”x 3”, Unique Cast Bronze with Patina, and Encaustic on Birch
As a Delaware/Cherokee Native American, I grew up hearing family stories of shapeshifters with the idea of a trickster who hides their identity, birds as messengers, and owls as bearers of tragic news. In “Flight” you see where the bird is shifting and he is stuck between the two worlds trying to choose, the world of man or the world of the spirit. He has the hands and eyes of mankind but they are still in bird form.
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It’s All Relative
IT’S ALL RELATIVE
2012, 13” x 12”x 3”, Unique Cast Bronze with Patina, and Encaustic on Birch
As a Delaware/Cherokee Native American, I grew up hearing family stories of shapeshifters with the idea of a trickster who hides their identity, birds as messengers, and owls as bearers of tragic news. In “It’s All Relative” you see where the bird is shifting and he is stuck between the two worlds trying to choose, the world of man or the world of the spirit. He has the hands and eyes of mankind but they are still in bird form.
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On a Limb
ON A LIMB
2011, 14″ x 9. 5″ x 19″, Unique Cast Bronze with Patina, and Sterling Silver
In “On a Limb” the girl balances on the branch watching, reaching for the bird that has landed on the tip of a small branch to watch her. The bird is a silver bird, which I refer to as a “Birdens”. While goals, objects, situations, and people may be a burden at times, they are important and precious to each of us, thus we care for them, and for this reason I cast the birds in the precious metal sterling silver.
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For inquiries, please contact:
MA Doran Gallery
3509 S. Peoria Avenue | Tulsa, OK 74105 | 918.748.8700
Exhibition History
- Conversations: Eiteljorg Native Art Fellowship, Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis IN (November 14, 2015-February 14, 2016)
