“Raven Halfmoon: Ancestors” Opens at Art Omi
The artist and citizen of the Caddo Nation creates large-certamic sculptures that pay homage to her Native American culture.
Raven Halfmoon, the artist, stands beside her work Bah'hatteno Ina (Red River Mother), 2022
Hacah’yosha, a light-colored horse made of stoneware and glaze, greets visitors at the entrance of “Raven Halfmoon: Ancestors,” on view in the Newmark Gallery at Art Omi in Ghent, New York. The exhibit opened on Saturday, March 19, with Raven Halfmoon, the artist and citizen of the Caddo Nation, in attendance. Halfmoon’s first solo institutional exhibition features her monumental ceramic sculptures, some of which tower more than five feet high. Using the coil-rolling tradition of Caddo ceramics, Halfmoon creates looming, figurative forms, glazed in black and white with a vivid red that evokes both the red dirt of her home state, Oklahoma, as well as a reference to the violence of the missing and murdered Native women and girls in the United States and Canada.. The show runs through June 12.
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- Karen Pearson. Courtesy Art Omi.
Olana senior vice president and landscape curatorMark Prezorski, president Sean Sawyer, The evenings honoree Kristin Gamble and New York State Assemblymember Didi Barrett.
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