Yatika Starr Fields: Home As It Was
Garth Greenan Gallery•Mar 06, 2025 — Apr 12, 2025
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Garth Greenan Gallery is pleased to announce Home As It Was, an exhibition of new works by Osage-Mvskoke-Cherokee artist Yatika Starr Fields. Opening Thursday, March 6, 2025, the exhibition builds on Fields’s previous Tent Metaphor series.
Inspired by his experience at the Oceti Sakowin camp during the No Dakota Access Pipeline protests of 2016–2017, Fields’s Tent Metaphor series gestures to the multiple ways tents have become a symbol of contemporary life. While they most visibly evoke the protest encampments, refugee camps, and ongoing housing crises that have touched communities across the United States, they also contextualize these contemporary struggles within a longer legacy of Indigenous survivance in the face of forced removal, allotment, and urban relocation. The tent’s function as a porous metaphor simultaneously signals hope, distress, and resistance.
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Yatika Starr Fields: Home As It Was
Garth Greenan Gallery•Mar 06, 2025 — Apr 12, 2025
Press Release
Garth Greenan Gallery is pleased to announce Home As It Was, an exhibition of new works by Osage-Mvskoke-Cherokee artist Yatika Starr Fields. Opening Thursday, March 6, 2025, the exhibition builds on Fields’s previous Tent Metaphor series.
Inspired by his experience at the Oceti Sakowin camp during the No Dakota Access Pipeline protests of 2016–2017, Fields’s Tent Metaphor series gestures to the multiple ways tents have become a symbol of contemporary life. While they most visibly evoke the protest encampments, refugee camps, and ongoing housing crises that have touched communities across the United States, they also contextualize these contemporary struggles within a longer legacy of Indigenous survivance in the face of forced removal, allotment, and urban relocation. The tent’s function as a porous metaphor simultaneously signals hope, distress, and resistance.
In Home As It Was, Fields extends the…
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