(Dayton, OH) - The Dayton Art Institute opens its 2017 special exhibition season with a major retrospective of contemporary Native American artist Kay WalkingStick, on view at the museum from February 11 through May 7. The exhibition, which originated at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI), was co-curated by Kathleen Ash-Milby (Navajo), Associate Curator, and David Penney, Associate Director for Museum Scholarship at the Smithsonian’s NMAI. Kay WalkingStick: An American Artist is organized by the American Federation of Arts and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. Kay WalkingStick: An American Artist features about 60 of her most notable works, drawn from public and private collections across the country and from the collection of the artist. The special exhibition demonstrates the breadth of WalkingStick’s achievements and her contributions to American art. While WalkingStick’s work has been widely exhibited and discussed, this touring retrospective will be the first survey of her singular career.
Landscapes, Spirituality, Sexuality and other themes are explored across Kay WalkingStick's oil and acrylic paintings, expressing her emotional and physical journey through life. Her use of saponified wax, gold leaf and other materials bring another dimension and added layers that sometimes give the viewer a closer connection to the physical landscapes. The colors and illusion of motion used in certain paintings convey some of the emotion involved tn the trials and difficulties of the Native American people and also in the loss of her husband. Kay uses devices such as silhouettes and geometric shapes in some of her various painting series. In other series, she uses diptychs that sometime combine both abstraction and realism to approach a subject.
Kay WalkingStick: An American Artist is a visual history of Kay's life and the Native American people as seen through her eyes.
Tickets for the exhibitions and related programs may be purchased at the museum’s Guest Services Desk or by phone at 937-223-4ART (4278) during regular hours, or online at daytonartinstitute.org.
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