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Installation view: Looking North, Yi Gallery, NY 2023
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Installation view: Looking North, Yi Gallery, NY 2023
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Shane Charles
Black Sun Rising, 2023
Wood ash, oil paint, beeswax, copper leaf on stitched hemp canvas
with stainless steel brackets and wood
with stainless steel brackets and wood
96 x 72 x 5 in
243.8 x 182.9 x 12.7 cm
243.8 x 182.9 x 12.7 cm
Series: Native Soil
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Shane Charles creates paintings, sculptures and photographs within a process of abstraction and poetics. His recent works deal with memory, generational loss and renewal. The ongoing series, Native Soil (2015-present),...
Shane Charles creates paintings, sculptures and photographs within a process of abstraction and poetics. His recent works deal with memory, generational loss and renewal. The ongoing series, Native Soil (2015-present), commemorates his father’s work as the Penobscot surveyor after the 1980 Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act. Hand-stitched hemp with soil from these lands, mixed with ash and paint, take the form of mapped terrain. Petroglyphs, mythology and natural cycles all inform his work. Charles utilizes raw—sourced material, body prints and open compositional spaces to engage with themes of artifact, presence and continuity. Charles is a direct descendent of the Penobscot Nation and also of (colonial) British ancestry. His grandfather was a mapmaker and his father was the Penobscot tribal surveyor. From this lineage, Charles’ narrative, which includes generational fracture and psychogeography, is one of place and remembrance. His making is a meditation on iconography and assemblage, while dichotomies play out of the intimate and monumental; the architectural and performative.
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