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).
