Navajo photographer works at the intersection of environmental and racial justice.
Thursday, June 16, 2022 @ 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm | Main Gallery
Join us to celebrate the opening of Will Wilson: Connecting the Dots, a mid-career retrospective of Diné (Navajo) photographer and community engagement artist Will Wilson.
An opening reception with the artist will be held on Thursday, June 16 from 5–8pm. The reception is free and open to the public, with a suggested $10 donation. Forsyth Seafood will be on-site serving dinner, and The Exquisite Taste will be serving hand-crafted cocktails.
A prolific artist with a wide range of technical experience, Wilson presents an artistic vision that is experimental both in technique and approach. His works use the very latest photographic technology and historical photographic processes, such as tintypes. This exhibition showcases photography and sculpture from three significant bodies of work created over the last two decades, addressing topics such as environmental justice, institutional racism, and Indigenous futurism.
"As artists and agents of Indigenous imagination, we are more than our shared histories of colonization," said artist Will Wilson. "There are other aspects of our experience that we must express and convey and these expressions must be received with respect. This necessity requires that we tell our stories well, with the vision of a people who understand the generative power of representation. It is in this particular process of self-expression that we practice Native representational sovereignty."
This exhibition was supported, in part, by The Ellsworth Kelly Foundation and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.
Learn more about the exhibition here.