We’re so excited for Julie Buffalohead‘s exhibition Stories of Becoming to open at the Nerman Museum next Thursday, Feb 5th, with Julie speaking in dialogue with Kendra Greendeer that evening. Julie Buffalohead Artist Talk and Reception | Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art (RSVP for livestream link)
If you’re eager to learn more about Julie before the opening, here are some resources our student intern Ansel found online from other institutions and exhibitions.
Minneapolis Institute of Art exhibition (has both audio interview and video of artist talk) (audio interview)
Buffalohead speaking at the Davis Museum at Wellesley College. Here are some timestamps for that video:
17:40 – using animals in her works
21:21 – you are on indian land
24:37 – trickster showdown
27:50 – high point
30:04 – revisenest history lesson
32:00 – lots of people mistake her work as “cute” or “whismical”
33:32 – fox tussle
35:40 – the garden
42:30 – hearts of our people, thoughts on exhibitions
45:15 – feminist works
47:33 – coming back to painting
51:50: – titles
57:12 – nourished
1:04:17 – views on land (acknowledgement)
1:06:40 – role of negative space in her works
1:10:40 – two rectangle shapes, the division in her work
1:14:50 – preparatory drawings
Visions West Contemporary art gallery (contains links to several PDFs with articles)