Colby College Museum of Art acquires work by Kay WalkingStick

Hales is delighted to announce that the Colby College Museum of Art has acquired Kay WalkingStick's 2021 work, Durand's Homage to the Mohawks, courtesy of the Colby College Museum of Art and The Lunder Collection.

 

In her most recent works, WalkingStick paints single viewpoint landscapes of non-industrial America, reclaiming the land by overlaying the paintings with designs of the Native American people who have inhabited or live there now. Sublime vistas are painted in fluid brushstrokes with bands of traditional Native American patterning floating on the surface, as if protecting them. WalkingStick's practice is both a visual record of her experience on earth and her attempt to come to terms with Indigenous history that is such a crucial part of America's history. In these works of rich colors and bold forms there is a sense of ancestral presence and a deep connection to place.

 

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