la india with the boomin system

 

stickers in nob hill

artist??

albuquerque, nm

posts at a gallery/gas station in gallup

submitted by kris kerby, who saw these in gallup, nm, while on tour with his band, tenderizor.

"those posts were at some indian art gallery/gas station on the outskirts we stopped at to tinkle," he says.

gallup, nm

it wasn't the dream of golden cities

“It Wasn’t the Dream of Golden Cities” by Postcommodity

reposted from The End of Being

Blood is leaking from the mouth of a dead mule deer.  The arts collective Postcommodity calls this Indian Time.

P’oe iwe navi ûnp’oe dînmuu (My Blood is in the Water)

In Santa Fe, it’s Indian Market, and it’s also the 400^th anniversary of the city’s settlement by the Spanish.  Right now, Santa Fe is doubled in size as older, tanned tourists in shorts and couture cowboy hats throng the mazes of Native American vendors selling pottery, silver, and turquoise.  This year’s arts fair is expected to draw 80,000 visitors and generate $100 million in sales.

 

Meanwhile, behind the high walls of the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts courtyard, the deer carcass dangles by its hind legs from a high, rough-hewn, four post tower.  The structure marks the time with blood that wells at the tip of the deer’s tongue and falls, in steady intervals, onto a drum.  The echo of each drop is enhanced into stereo thunder.

 “It’s important that the materials are from the spot and that the instrument can sound like what it is,” says Postcommodity artist Raven Chacon (Navajo), a composer and experimental noise musician in Albuquerque, New Mexico.   “We use it to find meaning in the history of the spot it’s directly over.”

1680 a totally rad revolution

at indian market, outside the iaia museum courtyard
santa fe, nm

the pueblo revolted against the spanish in 1680

sorry, my camera isn't that great

painted ladies

body paint at the injunuity show @ black market goods
top photo submitted by evan moore
albuquerque, nm

n8v now

reprinted from alibi v.19 no.16 | april 22 - 28, 2010

n8v now: young artists and the new school

By Samara Alpern

“Bounty Hunter and Trickster Encounter,” painting by Ryan Singer

 

Though it’s not widely known, Boba Fett is an important figure in Native American art. At least, he is in the art of Ryan Singer. Originally from Tuba City, Ariz., in Navajo country, the Albuquerque artist is working on a portrait of the infamous Star Wars bounty hunter, armed and gunning for the viewer, alongside a wolf haloed by the Fett insignia.

Mural by Marc Quetone and David Abeyta

Home to the largest powwow in the country, Albuquerque is also an emerging crossroads for nontraditional Native American artists like Ryan Singer and his cousin Monty Singer.
Monty Singer says pop icons belong in the vernacular of a Diné artist: “We’re a newer generation, influenced by Star Wars and punk music.”
Coinciding with the 27th Annual Gathering of Nations are two art exhibitions featuring contemporary work by Native artists: Wrestling with Paint at the 3rd Street Arts space will present the work of Monty and Ryan Singer. Black Market Goods will host a battery of Native photographers, animators, fashion designers, and graffiti and visual artists for its annual show, Injunuity. Both exhibitions open on Friday, April 23.

“I don’t like to conform. That’s what art is about—freedom. That’s what being an artist is. The most important thing: Speak your own truth.”