The Armory Show 2021 | Wendy Red Star
September 9 – 12, 2021
Booth #F21, Javits Center, New York
Wendy Red Star, Axpishoope (Fourteen), 2021, Fabric with archival pigment photograph, 20 x 28 inches
Wendy Red Star, Shoope (Four), 2021, Fabric with archival pigment photograph, 20 x 28 inches
A Float for the Future Booth Installation View
A Float for the Future Booth Installation View
The Armory Show 2021 | Wendy Red Star
A Float for the Future
September 9 – 12, 2021
Booth #F21, Javits Center, New York
Sargent’s Daughters is pleased to take part in The Armory Show 2021 with a solo presentation of new work by Wendy Red Star.
For the 2021 Focus section, Wendy Red Star will present A Float for the Future, which reimagines the traditional Crow Fair Parade for an altered world. Central to the presentation is a papier-mâché Crow Fair Parade Car adorned with a larger-than-life honor bonnet conceived by Clive Francis Dust, Sr., known in Wendy's family and the Apsáalooke community for his creativity as a cultural keeper. Surrounding the car will be a new body of work created from images of parade cars from past Crow Fairs fashioned in ornate fabrics. Referencing the colorful saturation of her community, Red Star offers us a celebration of past and present as an answer to the question: how do we move forward?
Tickets available for purchase here.
Wendy Red Star (b.1981, Billings, MT) lives and works in Portland, OR. Red Star has exhibited in the United States and abroad 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), the Frost Art Museum (Miami, FL), among others.
Her work is in the permanent collections of 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 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), and the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester (Rochester, NY).
She served a visiting lecturer at institutions including 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 on view at the Newark Museum in Newark, New Jersey through May 2019, concurrently with her first New York solo gallery exhibition at Sargent's Daughters.
Red Star is currently exhibiting at MASS MoCA (North Adams, MA). She recently had a solo exhibition at the Joslyn Art Museum (Omaha, NE) in the Spring of 2021, and her work will be included in an upcoming exhibition at The Momentary (Betonville, AK) in the Fall of 2021.
Red Star holds a BFA from Montana State University, Bozeman, and an MFA in sculpture from University of California, Los Angeles. She is represented by Sargent's Daughters.
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