The Art Show | Booth C14: Jordan Ann Craig and Kay WalkingStick
Past exhibition
Overview
For the 2024 edition of The Art Show, Hales is proud to present a two-person booth of ambitious new paintings by Kay WalkingStick and Jordan Ann Craig. In WalkingStick’s vivid explorations of the North American landscape and Craig’s dense and complex works, both artists draw inspiration from indigenous patterning, celebrating its significance within Native American culture and using it as a powerful tool within their painting. WalkingStick is currently included in the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia and her solo show Kay WalkingStick / Hudson River School is presently on view at Addison Gallery of American Art, originating at the New-York Historical Society (2023-2024). Craig’s solo exhibition at the Block Museum of Art, her largest institutional show to date, opens January 2025.
WalkingStick (b.1935 Syracuse, NY) is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and has, over a six-decade career, made works which connect to the Native American experience and the history of American landscape painting. New works, Abenaki Shore (2024) and Niagara River Cascades (2024), are part of WalkingStick’s iconic series of single viewpoint landscape paintings of non-industrial North America. Sublime vistas are painted in fluid brushstrokes with bands of traditional indigenous patterning poignantly stenciled on top of the land. Overlaying the paintings with designs of the people who once inhabited the land or still do, WalkingStick’s works speak to a knowledge of earth and its sacred quality, making a statement on whose land we stand upon.
Craig (b. 1992 San Jose, CA) is a Northern Cheyenne artist known for vibrant and often densely composed paintings which are characterized by a dynamic exploration and interpretation of Northern Cheyenne and Cheyenne visual culture. Her pictorial vocabulary builds upon inspiration she finds in beadwork, quillwork, drawings and textiles, often expanding upon the visual language she finds in these rich cultural objects. In these most recent works Craig expands upon past explorations of form and color found across her hard-edged surfaces, as seen in You Come and Leave, Again from My Memory Bank (2024) and Sharp Tongue; Too Much Sadness (2024).
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Kay WalkingStick received a BFA from Beaver College (now Arcadia University) Glenside, PA in 1959 and an MFA from the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY in 1975. She lives and works in Pennsylvania.
WalkingStick’s extensive retrospective at The National Museum of the American Indian, Washington DC, toured the United States to the Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ; Dayton Art Institute, OH; Gilcrease Art Museum, Tulsa, OK; Kalamazoo Institute of Art, MI; and Montclair Art Museum, NJ (2015-2018). WalkingStick has been included in many exhibitions, including The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, AR; Saint Louis Art Museum, MO; Baltimore Museum of Art, MD; Birmingham Museum of Art, AL; Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC; The New Museum, New York, NY; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY; National Gallery of Canada, ON; Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA; Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT, among many others.
WalkingStick's works are held in many collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; New-York Historical Society, NY; National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian, Washington DC; Art Institute of Chicago, IL; Toledo Museum of Art, OH; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR; Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma; Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo, NY; Baltimore Museum of Art, MD; Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ; Detroit Institute of Arts, MI; Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada; Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA; Denver Art Museum, CO; Saint Louis Art Museum, MO; Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS; and Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, among others.
WalkingStick was a Professor of Fine Arts at Cornell University from 1988 until her retirement as a Professor Emerita in 2005.
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Jordan Ann Craig received her BA in Studio Art and Psychology from Dartmouth College in 2015. She lives and works in Pojoaque Valley, New Mexico.
Craig will be included in a forthcoming exhibition, American Sunrise: Indigenous Art at Crystal Bridges, at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR in fall 2024; her work will also be included in Indigenous Identities: Here, Now and Always at the Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ in early 2025. Craig has had solo exhibitions at the Roswell Museum and Art Center, NM; School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe, NM; The Guesthouse, Cork, Ireland; Scuola Internazionale di Grafica Venezia, Italy; Nearburg Gallery, Black Family Visual Arts Center, Hanover, NH; October Gallery, London, UK; and Barrows Rotunda, Dartmouth College, NH. Craig has been included in numerous group shows including McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, CA, USA; The Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM; Trout Museum of Art, WI; Berkeley Arts Center, CA; Rainmaker Gallery, Bristol, UK; ; El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, NM; Fort Worth Community Arts Center, TX; Seven Stars Art Center, Sharon, VT, among others
Selected collections include Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR; Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY; Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, NH; Wichita Art Museum, KS; Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art, Roswell, NM; IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM; Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS; Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA; School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe, NM; A LAB, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Cork Printmakers, Ireland.