Indian Summer, from the series Four Seasons
Wendy Red Star, Indian Summer, from the series Four Seasons, 2006, pigment-based inkjet print, Gift of Loren G. Lipson, M.D., © Wendy Red Star, 2017.25.1b
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- Title
Indian Summer, from the series Four Seasons
- Related Titles
series (original language): Four Seasons
- Artist
- Date
2006
- Medium
pigment-based inkjet print
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
image: 21 in x 24 in; sheet: 23 in x 26 in
- Collection Area
Native American Art; Photography; Modern and Contemporary Art; Northwest Art
- Category
Photographs
- Object Type
photograph
- Culture
American
- Cultural Group
Crow
- Credit Line
Gift of Loren G. Lipson, M.D.
- Accession Number
2017.25.1b
- Copyright
© Wendy Red Star
- Terms
The Four Seasons photographs depict Red Star, wearing a traditional elk-tooth dress, surrounded by dioramas made of cheap plastic backdrops, blow-up animals, plastic flowers, and AstroTurf. This mixing of high and low craftsmanship encourages humor and irony. Red Star uses the mass-produced materials to point to the many stereotypical interpretations of contemporary Native Americans as primitive, simple, and closer to nature than the more civilized Caucasian population. Red Star explains, "I'm dealing with really heavy topics pertaining to Crow and Native culture and the colonization of people. You can be very heavy handed about it, but people don't want to be around that. You can find an in by using humor. Humor or wit can be very healing, by getting viewers to crack a smile or laugh I can get them in, that way they can investigate my work further."
- Exhibitions
2019 Toughened to Wind and Sun: Women Photographing the Landscape Portland Art Museum
2021 Ansel Adams in Our Time Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
