Fritz Scholder


February 01, 2022 until March 31, 2022

 

This show features lithography, monotype, and cyanotype works from the influential artist, Fritz Scholder. These incredible images mirror the career and lifetime of the artist in their irony, duality, and inspiration. From the beginning of this career, Scholder struggled to represent his reality and that of his subject matter. Scholder did not consider himself an Indian and yet he was widely regarded as a leader of the New American Indian Art Movement. In a 2001 interview Scholder described himself as a "natural optimist, which might be surprising, because I like the dark side of things."

No juxtaposition could be more natural than Scholder the man alongside the art he has produced. From spritely, lighthearted images of a girl and her dog to a lithograph of an "American Warrior," the pieces in this show have range and compel one to see the depth of Scholder's world. The artist lends us a hand, however, and brings us fully into his space as we experience his abstract version of surrealism mixed with Pop art. His range is inspiring, engaging, and surprising. In his work he invites us into the humor and tragedy of life, and specifically the lives he has chosen to represent in his artworks.

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