Post by Okwes on Aug 9, 2006 17:20:20 GMT -5
PELTIER PAINTINGS AT ALDRICH MUSEUM
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Aug. 4, 2006
PELTIER PAINTINGS AT ALDRICH MUSEUM
Paintings by the still-controversial Native American activist Leonard Peltier -- currently serving two consecutive life terms for the murders of two FBI agents during a 1975 shoot-out at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation -- go on view at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Conn., Aug. 25, 2006-Feb. 25, 2007. Peltier, who is considered a political prisoner by Amnesty International, is also a figurative painter, signing each of his canvases with his prison number, 89637-132. His works are featured in the "The Tat� Wikikuwa Museum," a traveling installation of 23 paintings plus a timeline of his incarceration and a miniature prison-like space. (Tat� Wikikuwa is Peltier's Native American name, and means "The Wind that Chases the Sun") The show, designed to draw attention to Peltier's case, is organized by San Francisco-based artist Rigo 23. The installation has already appeared at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Santiago and the de Young Museum in San Francisco. It appears at the Aldrich Museum in conjunction with the exhibition, "No Reservations: Native American History and Culture in Contemporary Art," Aug. 23, 2006-Feb. 25, 2007.
www.leonardpeltier.net
www.freedomwalk.com
Posted by: "tamra@NDNnews.com" tamra@NDNnews.com tamra_ndnnews
Sat Aug 5, 2006 2:45 pm (PST)
Artnet News
Aug. 4, 2006
PELTIER PAINTINGS AT ALDRICH MUSEUM
Paintings by the still-controversial Native American activist Leonard Peltier -- currently serving two consecutive life terms for the murders of two FBI agents during a 1975 shoot-out at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation -- go on view at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Conn., Aug. 25, 2006-Feb. 25, 2007. Peltier, who is considered a political prisoner by Amnesty International, is also a figurative painter, signing each of his canvases with his prison number, 89637-132. His works are featured in the "The Tat� Wikikuwa Museum," a traveling installation of 23 paintings plus a timeline of his incarceration and a miniature prison-like space. (Tat� Wikikuwa is Peltier's Native American name, and means "The Wind that Chases the Sun") The show, designed to draw attention to Peltier's case, is organized by San Francisco-based artist Rigo 23. The installation has already appeared at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Santiago and the de Young Museum in San Francisco. It appears at the Aldrich Museum in conjunction with the exhibition, "No Reservations: Native American History and Culture in Contemporary Art," Aug. 23, 2006-Feb. 25, 2007.
www.leonardpeltier.net
www.freedomwalk.com