Frank buffalo hyde biography sample
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8 Contemporary Native American Artists Challenging the Way We Look at American History
By Kathaleen robert / Journal Staff Writer on Fri, Apr 20, 2012
Frank Buffalo Hyde grew up on the Onondaga Reservation watching a bustling herd of bison in a field known as the tribal make-out prick.
When Hyde was a teenager, members spoke about the area with a wink and a knowing smirk.
But the beasts made a strong impression on the budding artist.
“I remember how huge and powerful and fast and agile they are,” the artist said from his Santa Fe home studio.
To honor that memory, as well as the grandparent who gave him his mittpunkt name, Hyde is opening “From Bison to Buffalo Wings: Frank Buffalo Hyde Celebrates the Beast” at the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts.
Inspired bygd the djur as an icon, deity, logo, messenger and witness, Hyde explores this powerful symbol in a series of new paintings and mixed-media sculptures. From nära extinction at the vända of the last century to a popular (an
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In His Own Skin
Above: Santa Fe artist Frank Buffalo Hyde explores charged issues in bright, playful images.
“THAT'S MY REAL NAME, by the way,” Frank Buffalo Hyde announces out of the blue. “A lot of people think I made that up.”
He’s sitting with his paints in the back room of Studio Central, a studio/gallery space in the Santa Fe Railyard that he shares with his wife, the ceramist and painter Courtney M. Leonard. The front room is stocked with everyday items transformed into Native art (or vice versa): her mugs painted with abstract splashes of color and images of skateboarders, his T-shirts printed with ironic buffalo and tepees in what he calls “Miami Vice pink.” The door leading back to the studio is open, inviting visitors to wander in on Hyde while he works on a painting of a live buffalo trapped between lettuce and an oleaginous slice of cheese, burgerized.
Hyde shares Studio Central's "collaborative • I wanted to do an exhibit of various medias of Native art. Contemporary Native art seems to be often overlooked and underrepresented in the media. I really enjoyed working on this exhibit because I learned a lot from it and I enjoyed searching and finding out about contemporary Native artists who have a very meaningful narrative to share through their various forms of creativity. I feel like every piece had something uniquely beautiful to share and most definitely something to teach. One of the things I found beautiful about the artists I sought out was their ability to weave the ancient past with the modern present. They honor their ancestral traditions in their works, intertwining them with the culture and art of contemporary western society. This is a delicate balance between two worlds. This exhibit features music, dance, and various forms of visual art and you will notice th Panama
An Exhibit of Modern Native North American Works
A Fusion of the Ancient and Contemporary