Only a year and a half ago, Cannupa Hanska Luger’s standout show at Garth Greenan Gallery presented costumes and video that posited Native American practices of adaptability in the environment as a model in a world increasingly effected by climate change. Luger’s back again already with a strong new body of work that reminds viewers of Native American ingenuity via a series of paintings in the form of large-scale tipis, which the gallery calls ‘spaces of resistance.’ Decorated with graphics reminiscent of art painted on WWII airplanes – large eyes and a set of shark teeth – the tipis are ironically not tools to alter or possess the land but instead to remain mobile within it. (On view through Feb 25th).
Cannupa Hanska Luger, Blood Lust, acrylic on canvas and mixed media, 109 x 190 inches, 2022.
Merrily Kerr is an art critic and writer based in New York. For more than 20 years, Merrily has published in international art magazines including Time Out New York, Art on Paper, Flash Art, Art Asia Pacific, Art Review, and Tema Celeste in addition to writing catalogue essays and guest lecturing. Merrily teaches art appreciation at Marymount Manhattan College and has taught for Cooper Union Continuing Education.
For more than a decade Merrily has crafted personalized tours of cultural discovery in New York's galleries and museums for individuals and groups, including corporate tours, collectors, artists, advertising agencies, and student groups from Texas Woman's University, Parsons School of Design, Chicago's Moody Institute, Cooper Union Continuing Education, Hunter College Continuing Education and other institutions. Merrily's tours have been featured in The New York Times, Conde Nast Traveler, Sydney Morning Herald and Philadelphia Magazine.
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