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Everything We've Ever Been, Everything We Are Right Now – Above

Artist Nicholas Galanin (American Indian, Tlingit and Unangax Nations, born 1979)

Date2019

Mediummonotype and gold leaf with additional preexisting pink platetone

Dimensionssheet (deckled edge): 52.8 × 74.8 cm (20 13/16 × 29 7/16 in.)
framed: 62.1 × 84.1 × 3.8 cm (24 7/16 × 33 1/8 × 1 1/2 in.)

ClassificationsPrints

Credit LineChapin Riley Fund at the Greater Worcester Community Foundation

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Object number2021.83

Label TextGalanin, an Alaskan interdisciplinary artist, also considers abstraction an important formal device. “In this series, the work is about memory, movement, motion, and instinct that I would say [are] connected to a deep cultural and personal relationship to place, to land, and ancestral connections.” Galanin also discussed the way in which art historians, galleries, and museums have ignored the importance of abstraction as a marker of Native American identity. “Oftentimes institutions or [the] western art canon deny our communities’ abstraction, even though our foundations of cultural visual language are often extremely abstract and have also influenced many celebrated abstract movements.”

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