New York, NY | Tour of Wendy Red Star’s “Our Side” at Sargent’s Daughters

Please join us at Sargent’s Daughters gallery for a tour of Our Side—the third solo exhibition of Wendy Red Star (Apsáalooke (Crow), b.1981, Billings, MT) at the gallery. This exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Spring 2023 release of Red Star’s monograph Bíilukaa, published by Radius Books and featuring interviews with the artist, members of her extended family, and scholars. The book’s title, Bíilukaa, is in reference to what the Apsáalooke (Crow) call themselves: Our Side.

Our Side builds upon Red Star’s research into historical photographs of Apsáalooke individuals and objects, with the artist drawing on both her personal collection and works held in museums and archives across the country. Red Star notes: “Since the time I left the Crow reservation I have encountered my tribe’s material culture in every city I have exhibited or occupied. It is incredible that so much of my community’s history and material culture is kept in the vaults of these institutions hundreds of miles away from their source.”

The exhibition includes two distinct bodies of work; the first are photographic prints originally produced for Bíilukaa, reimagined as a dynamic installation in the gallery. The second consists of large-scale unique collages, which layer photographs on top of fabrics typical of Apsáalooke regalia.

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Wendy Red Star (b.1981, Billings, MT) lives in Portland, OR. Red Star has exhibited at venues including the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY), Brooklyn Museum (Brooklyn, NY), both of which have her works in their permanent collections; Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain (Paris, France), Domaine de Kerguéhennec (Bignan, France), Portland Art Museum (Portland, OR), Hood Art Museum (Hanover, NH), St. Louis Art Museum (St. Louis, MO), Minneapolis Institute of Art (Minneapolis, MN), and the Frost Art Museum (Miami, FL).

Her work is in public collections including the Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY), the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY), the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, NY), the Guggenheim Museum (New York, NY), the Amon Carter Museum of American Art (Fort Worth, TX), the Denver Art Museum (Denver, CO), the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College (Clinton, NY), the Baltimore Museum of Art (Baltimore, MD), the Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA), the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University (Durham, NC), the Birmingham Museum of Art (Birmingham, AL), the Williams College Museum of Art (Williamstown, MA), the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester (Rochester, NY), San Antonio Museum of Art (San Antonio, TX), The Seattle Art Museum (Seattle, WA), and the British Museum (London, UK).

She served as visiting lecturer at Yale University (New Haven, CT), the Figge Art Museum (Davenport, IA), the Banff Centre (Banff, Canada), National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne (Melbourne, Australia), Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH), CalArts (Valencia, CA), Flagler College (St. Augustine, FL), and I.D.E.A. Space in Colorado Springs (Colorado Springs, CO). In 2017, Red Star was awarded the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award and in 2018 she received a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship. Her first career survey exhibition “Wendy Red Star: A Scratch on the Earth” was at the Newark Museum in New Jersey through May 2019, concurrently with her first New York solo gallery exhibition at Sargent’s Daughters. In the fall of 2022, Red Star had a solo project with the Public Art Fund titled Travels Pretty, on JCDeaux bus shelters across Boston, MA; Chicago, IL; and New York, NY. Red Star’s monograph Delegation was co-published by the Aperture Foundation and Documentary Arts in May 2022, which was named one of Vanity Fair’s best art books of 2022 as well as Time Magazine’s best photography books of 2022.

Red Star is currently exhibiting at the Seattle Art Museum (Seattle, WA), the Denver Art Museum (Denver, CO), the Utah Museum of Fine Art (Salt Lake City, UT), Sharjah Art Foundation (Sharjah, UAE).

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Admission:

• ArtTable Members – complimentary
• Member Guests – $10

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This program is supported in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

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Image: Wendy Red Star | Strawberry Chief (ishkóoshiite), 2023. Fabric and archival pigment prints mounted on gatorboard, 44 x 44″

About the Tour Leader

Christine Nyce is a curator and writer originally from Milwaukee, Wisconsin.  She is based in New York, where she is a Gallery Associate and Curator with Sargent’s Daughters gallery.  She holds a BA in Art History from Williams College and a MA in Curatorial Studies from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College.

About the Gallery

Sargent’s Daughters was founded in 2014 on the Lower East Side by Allegra LaViola. The gallery takes its name from the painter John Singer Sargent, who was an innovator working in a traditional medium. Accordingly, the gallery interest is in artists whose work combines the same qualities of tradition and cutting edge. In addition to exhibitions by represented gallery artists, Sargent’s Daughters creates collaborations as a platform for exploring new conversations within a wider context and presents a strong program of primarily women artist, often highlighting overlooked artists working outside the established gallery world. The gallery has a history of granting young artists their first exhibition opportunities, placing works in major museums, and producing catalogues to further the dialogue of the artists’ work. Gallery exhibitions have been featured in The New York Times, ARTFORUM and Art in America, among other national and international publications.