Currently on view until 22 July at San Francisco’s is borrowed from a George Michael song, Gibson subverts the work of Elbridge Ayer Burbank, an American artist, born in 1858, who made portraits of Native peoples, often dressed in garments not of their own tribe or culture. Setting Burbank’s portraits against vibrant beadwork and patterning, Gibson critiques his depiction of Native Americans as a dying race at the time, in a powerful political statement against erasure.
Tribal warrior
Jul 06, 2023
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