Plains Art Museum, through May 30, 2021
A multi-year project in creation that will result in a two-gallery exhibition and several programs, High Visibility: On Location in Rural America and Indian Country is diverse in content and media. Visitors will engage with installations, performance works, interdisciplinary work, alongside traditional 2 and 3-dimensional pieces chosen to reflect the myriad dialogues of perceptions, realities, and issues of rural life, as well as the social, cultural, and historical conditions which shape their expression.
This exhibition presents a diverse range of artworks, practices, and histories from rural America and Native Nations where rural location is sincerely central to the artist’s creative practice, with a primary but not exclusive focus on the Plains region. National and Regional multi-disciplinary contemporary artists include M12, Raven Chacon, Lisa Bergh and Andrew Nordin, Erika Nelson, Jason Vaughn, Aaron Spangler, Cannupa Hanska Luger, and Athena LaTocha.
This exhibition presents a diverse range of artworks, practices, and histories from rural America and Native Nations where rural location is sincerely central to the artist’s creative practice, with a primary but not exclusive focus on the Plains region. National and Regional multi-disciplinary contemporary artists include M12, Raven Chacon, Lisa Bergh and Andrew Nordin, Erika Nelson, Jason Vaughn, Aaron Spangler, Cannupa Hanska Luger, and Athena LaTocha.
High Visibility was collectively curated by Matthew Fluharty of Art of the Rural and the Plains Art Museum staff: Andrew J. Maus, Director and CEO; Netha Cloeter, Director of Education & Social Engagement; Tasha Kubesh, Curator of Exhibitions and Collections; and Joe Williams, Director of Community Education & Director of Native American Programs.
Generous support for this exhibition is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, with continuing research and projects supported through its Curatorial Fellowship support of Matthew Fluharty. This project is made possible in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Director’s Welcome, Andrew J. Maus
Introduction, Matthew Fluharty
For further information on this exhibition, please visit:
https://plainsart.org/
Generous support for this exhibition is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, with continuing research and projects supported through its Curatorial Fellowship support of Matthew Fluharty. This project is made possible in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Director’s Welcome, Andrew J. Maus
Introduction, Matthew Fluharty
For further information on this exhibition, please visit:
https://plainsart.org/
Artists included in the exhibition:
Meghan Duda
One Mississippi [001], 2015 & Two Mississippi [014], 2020
Joe Harjo
Indian Holding a Weapon (Breath), 2019
Sabrina Hornung
Jackalope Valentine, 2016
R.J. Kern
from The Unchosen Ones, ongoing
Athena LaTocha
Buffalo Prairie (Slow Burn), 2019
Marcus Lund
from Grandmother’s Instructions (for four future directions), 2020
Shanai Matteson, Overburden/Overlook, 2020
Sara Pajunen, Mine Songs, 2020
M12 Studio
Black Hornet #5 (Crush), 2020
Rural Aesthetic Initiative: Lisa Bergh and Andrew Nordin
Stoppage 1 (For Marcel), 2020
Chris Sauter
Family Oil Deposits: West Anderson Family, 2020
Spiritual Technologies Project
still image from A Charge To Keep
Xavier Tavera
Eva Mendez with Portrait of her Father, Crookston, 2017
Karl Unnasch
Husk, 2020
Josh Zeis
Return, 2016
One Mississippi [001], 2015 & Two Mississippi [014], 2020
Joe Harjo
Indian Holding a Weapon (Breath), 2019
Sabrina Hornung
Jackalope Valentine, 2016
R.J. Kern
from The Unchosen Ones, ongoing
Athena LaTocha
Buffalo Prairie (Slow Burn), 2019
Marcus Lund
from Grandmother’s Instructions (for four future directions), 2020
Shanai Matteson, Overburden/Overlook, 2020
Sara Pajunen, Mine Songs, 2020
M12 Studio
Black Hornet #5 (Crush), 2020
Rural Aesthetic Initiative: Lisa Bergh and Andrew Nordin
Stoppage 1 (For Marcel), 2020
Chris Sauter
Family Oil Deposits: West Anderson Family, 2020
Spiritual Technologies Project
still image from A Charge To Keep
Xavier Tavera
Eva Mendez with Portrait of her Father, Crookston, 2017
Karl Unnasch
Husk, 2020
Josh Zeis
Return, 2016
Raven Chacon
American Ledger No. 2, 2019
Lillian Colton
Amelia Earhart, 1996
Bruce Engebretson
All Water Holy Water, 2018-19
Anna Johnson
Two Sided Woman II, 2020
Su Legatt
Finish What You Start (Advice From Minnesota Grandmothers Series), 2016
Cannupa Hanska Luger
still image from We Live, from the Future Ancestral Technologies project, 2019
Andrew Messerschmidt
Agroccult series, 2010-current
Erika Nelson
Gremlin Cache, 1973-2020
Fredrick Benedict Scheel
Prairie Road #2, Western North Dakota, 1980
Aaron Spangler
Tripod Untitled series, 2018-2020
Jovan C. Speller
In Lottie’s Living Room, 2020
Marty Two Bulls Jr.
Lakota Quarantine Bandana, 2020
Jason Vaughn
Waupun, WI, 2013
American Ledger No. 2, 2019
Lillian Colton
Amelia Earhart, 1996
Bruce Engebretson
All Water Holy Water, 2018-19
Anna Johnson
Two Sided Woman II, 2020
Su Legatt
Finish What You Start (Advice From Minnesota Grandmothers Series), 2016
Cannupa Hanska Luger
still image from We Live, from the Future Ancestral Technologies project, 2019
Andrew Messerschmidt
Agroccult series, 2010-current
Erika Nelson
Gremlin Cache, 1973-2020
Fredrick Benedict Scheel
Prairie Road #2, Western North Dakota, 1980
Aaron Spangler
Tripod Untitled series, 2018-2020
Jovan C. Speller
In Lottie’s Living Room, 2020
Marty Two Bulls Jr.
Lakota Quarantine Bandana, 2020
Jason Vaughn
Waupun, WI, 2013