Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds
Native American, Cheyenne/Arapaho, born 1954
Boost West
INV-2593
Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds
Native American, Cheyenne/Arapaho, born 19541990
native americannative north americandrawings (visual works)pastel
Date
1990
Medium
15 pastel drawings on white wove paper
Dimensions
55.5 cm x 76 cm (21 7/8 x 29 7/8 in.) each; 279.4 x 228.6 cm (110 x 90 in.) overall
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Ada Turnbull Hertle and Samuel W. and Blanche M. Koffler endowment funds
An enrolled citizen of the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes of Oklahoma, Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds unites
his commitment to Indigenous histories and land rights with legacies of Conceptual Art, landscape painting, and art in public space. He started his pastel drawings of words and short sentences in the mid-1980s, describing them as “wall lyrics,” iterative and rhythmic expressions of personal experiences. Evoking a trip the artist made from Oklahoma to the San Francisco Bay Area, Boost West speaks to both the spiritual transformation that can occur during travel and the importance of voyages in Cheyenne culture. As such, Boost West is as much an abstraction of the artist’s experiences as a physical manifestation of memory.
Also notable
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Dipper or Ladle with Interlocking Zigzag and Step-Fret Designs
Ancestral Pueblo (Anasazi), Black-on-white West-central New Mexico, United States
Bowl with Textured Surface Decoration
Possibly Ancestral Pueblo (Anasazi) Southwest, United States
