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Duane Slick

Oration at Dawn, 2005

Description

Maker

Duane Slick, b. 1961, American (Meskwaki/Ho-Chunk), (RISD Faculty 1995-present, Painting and Printmaking)

Title

Oration at Dawn

Year

2005

Medium

Acrylic on linen

Materials/Techniques

Materials

acrylic

Supports

linen

Dimensions

83.8 x 61 x 4.5 cm (33 x 24 x 1 13/16 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Artist signature with title and date

Type

Paintings

Credit

Mary B. Jackson Fund

Object Number

2005.111

Exhibition History

The Phantom of Liberty

May 4 - December 30, 2018

In narrative traditions, to tell the story of tragedy, one must always begin by telling the ending first.

I once believed that the weight of such expectations functioned as a cultural given for the artist of Native American descent. Its rules stated that we cry for a vision and place ourselves in a single grand narrative of history and representation. . . .

But the laughter of Coyote saturated and filled our daily lives. It echoed through the lecture halls of histories and it was so powerful and it was so distracting that I forgot my place in linear time and now I work from an untraceable present. –Duane Slick

Nature/Artifice

April 25, 2009 - February 28, 2010

Duane Slick has been making ethereal paintings in shades of white for almost two decades. His quiet, contemplative compositions are built up with layers of acrylic paint, allowing shadowlike images to emerge from remarkably smooth, matte surfaces. A Native American (Meskwaki Nation of Iowa on his father’s side; Ho-Chunk Nation on the Nebraska-Iowa border on his mother’s), Slick makes art that reflects his personal experiences, his profound devotion to the natural world, and a penchant for storytelling. Oration at Dawn features the artist’s self-portrait in profile, overlaid with silhouetted flowers and foliage.

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