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Event 

Title:
"Not a Block Party" to Celebrate Dear Listener: Works by Nicholas Galanin
When:
05.04.2018 06.00PM - 11.00PM
Where:
Heard Museum - Phoenix
Category:
Art Events

Description

The Heard Museum is proud to announce the May 4 opening of the exhibition, Dear Listener: Works by Nicholas Galanin. The mid-career retrospective of the provocative artist will run through September 2018 and will be the largest concentration of contemporary work at the Heard Museum in a decade.

Galanin, who is of min of Indigenous culture. Proclaimed a “standout” by The New York Times, Galanin’s prominence in the contemporary art world continues to grow as museums both domestically and internationally showcase his work.

The exhibition will be installed in the recently opened Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust Grand Gallery, the Dennis Lyon Family Crossroads Gallery, and the Freeman Gallery. Curated by the Heard Museum’s new fine arts curator, Erin Joyce, it will feature more than 10,000 square feet of new and existing works by Galanin including video installation, sculpture, performance art, works on paper, installation work, and fashion. 

“This exhibition, for me, is the culmination of more than five years of research and work with the artist,” Joyce said. “Galanin’s work is unabashedly beautiful and unflinching in its interrogation of colonial power structures and issues affecting Indigenous communities, and communities more broadly.’’ 

Within the retrospective, visitors will have a chance to explore themes of identity in both Indigenous and American contexts. One of the most arresting works in the exhibition is Galanin’s 2015-2018 installation A Supple Plunder (pictured above). The work, which is a collaboration between Galanin and his brother Jerod Galanin (under the name Leonard Getinthecar), recounts the instance of 12 Unangan men who were bound together by Russian invaders and then shot to see how many men could be killed with a single bullet. The bullet lodged in the ninth man’s body, killing nine of the 12. The piece is comprised of nine ballistic torsos produced in a clear medium with a bullet lodged in the center.

The exhibition will be accompanied by a text titled “Let Them Enter Dancing and Showing Their Faces” and will be available for purchase at Books & More. 

To celebrate the opening of the exhibition, the Heard Museum will host First Friday on May 4 with a special event, Not a Block Party, from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m., featuring performances by Shabazz Palaces, Indian Agent, and Heebie Jeebies. Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the door, with $10 student tickets in advance and $15 at the door (with valid college ID). To purchase tickets and learn more about the event, visit here.

For more information on Dear Listener: Works by Nicholas Galanin, visit here.