![]() ![]() That’s how the artist disrupts and dislodges conventions of landscape as genre, which are often tied to a Eurocentric mode of artistic production. The photographs and accompanying video installation, “EL – D1 (Earth Lines – Dinétah 1)” (2023), play with spatial relationality, reworking and reimagining readings of time, place, and location, creating an almost disorientating flattening of space and near obfuscation of the horizon line. These works reproduce places and imagery from northern parts of the Navajo Nation in Arizona and New Mexico and are imbued with narratives from Diné cosmologies and histories of place. In a new body of work, Yazzie incorporates still photography into his practice for the first time. Though the work pre-dates social media platforms, one cannot help but ponder the allegorical significance of viewing the world speeding past you while multi-tasking attempts to steer, capture, and record the experience - albeit it abstracted and altered.ĭrawing and Driving photographic documentation, Shiprock, New Mexico, 2023 (© 2023, Steven J Yazzie, image courtesy Gerald Peters Contemporary) Returning to his ongoing series Drawing and Driving (2006–present), Yazzie situates his body in a gravity-powered vehicle, which is affixed with an easel and paper, and draws his surroundings as he passes by them, all while trying to avoid crashing. The Denver-based artist, who is known for their lush canvases, video work, and installations, muses on land, how we see it, experience it, and move through it, all while interrogating how mechanized and digital technology’s intersection with culture shapes our perceptional readings of the natural world. Yazzie’s installation Throwing Stars Over Monsters, the more expansive of the two shows, is a sweeping study of Indigenous landscape. Yazzie (Diné/Laguna Pueblo) and Patrick Dean Hubbell (Diné) each diving into conversations on memory, appropriation, and land. ![]() SANTA FE - Currently on view at Gerald Peters Contemporary are dynamic solo shows of two Indigenous artists, Steven J. ![]()
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