Ribbon Bent Box - 2024 Charity Box
Ribbon Bent Box - 2024 Charity Box
THIS BOX IS NOW SOLD. FINAL BID $1,000.00
35" x 3 3/4" x 3 3/4"
Red and yellow cedar, ribbons, sage.
"The gift of fringe and ribbon, display the colours of our incredible natural world! All colours are found in nature. Mother Earth's generosity is overwhelming. This work is really about the preciousness of life, sky, the ancestors and those who walk each step gently upon Maka (mother earth). The ribbon's also represent sisterhood. May we all be loved. May we all dance. May we all be protected. May we all wear our fringe and ribbons!!"
-Dana Claxton
This piece is part of our 2024 annual Charity Bentwood Boxes auction running from November 23rd to December 7th.
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Dana Claxton
CULTURAL GROUP:
Wood Mountain Lakota
BIRTHPLACE:
Saskatchewan
Dana Claxton is a critically acclaimed international exhibiting artist. She works in film, video, photography, single and multi- channel video installation, and performance art. Her practice investigates indigenous beauty, the body, the socio-political and the spiritual. Her work has been shown internationally at the Museum of Modern Art (NYC), Metropolitan Museum of Art (NYC), Walker Art Centre (Minneapolis, MN), Sundance Film Festival, Salt Lake City (UT), Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis (IN) and the Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney, AU), Cyrstal Bridges (Bentonville, AR), with exhibitions at Nasher Gallery of Art at Duke University (Durham, NC), Memphis Brooks Museum of Art (TN) and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Minneapolis (MN). Her work is held in Canadian public and private collections, including the Vancouver Art Gallery, the National Gallery of Canada, the Winnipeg Art Gallery, the MacKenzie Art Gallery, and the Audain Museum. She has received numerous awards including the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts (2020), the Scotiabank Photography Award (2020), the VIVA Award , the Eiteljorg Fellowship, the Hnatyshyn Award, and the YWCA Women of Distinction Award. In 2018, she had a solo survey exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Her new body of work premiered at the inaugural edition of the Toronto Biennial of Art, Toronto ON.
She is Head and a Professor in the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory with the University of British Columbia. She is a member of Wood Mountain Lakota First Nations located in SW Saskatchewan and she resides in Vancouver Canada.