Yatika Fields
September 18 - October 25, 2024
Reception: Saturday, September 28, 3-6 pm
and
Artist Talk with Tahnee Ahtone, Curator of Native American Art, Nelson-Atkins Museum at 4:30 p.m.
The Gardiner Gallery of Art is thrilled to announce a solo exhibition featuring Osage, Muscogee and Cherokee artist Yatika Fields. The exhibition opens on Wednesday, September 18, 2024, and will be on view through Friday, October 25, 2024.
Yatika Fields, renowned for his innovative painting and sculpture, will showcase a
diverse array of works, including a new site-specific iteration of his celebrated
Tent Metaphor sculpture series—the most ambitious installation of the series to date.
Additionally, the exhibition will present a selection of Fields' landscape travel
paintings for the first time, along with other works and materials related to his
mural projects. The Gardiner Gallery will also serve as a dynamic studio space, where
Fields will create a new painting over a two-day period. This new work will join a
series of his paintings dating back to 2010, providing a comprehensive look at Fields'
artistic practice.
To celebrate, a public reception will be held on Saturday, September 28, from 3:00 to 6:00 p.m. The event will feature a discussion between Yatika Fields and Tahnee Ahtone, curator of Native American Art at the Nelson-Atkins Museum, and a tabling event for organizations and student groups connected to Fields’ artistic practice. Light food and refreshments will be served.
The exhibition is free and open to the public Monday through Friday, from 8:00 a.m.
to 5:00 p.m. The exhibition is curated by Lindsay Aveilhé, Director of the Gardiner
Gallery of Art.
About Yatika Fields
Born in 1980 in Tulsa, Yatika Starr Fields is a member of the Cherokee, Mvskoke (Creek) and Osage Nations. Fields studied landscape painting at Oklahoma State University's Sienna, Italy summer program before enrolling at the Art Institute of Boston from 2001 to 2004. While living on the East Coast, Fields developed a keen interest in street art. His dynamic, vibrant graffiti works quickly attracted attention, generating public and private mural commissions in Portland, Oklahoma City, Phoenix, Santa Fe, Bentonville and Siloam Springs, and Urique, CHIH, Mexico.
Fields has participated in more than 40 solo and group exhibitions at venues across the United States and Europe, including: the Southern Plains Indian Museum (2008, Anadarko, OK); Chiaroscuro Contemporary (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, Santa Fe, NM); BlueRain Gallery (2015, 2016, 2018, Santa Fe, NM); Peabody Essex Museum, (2015–2016, Salem, MA); Rainmaker Gallery (2017, Bristol, UK); the Grand Palais (2018, Paris); Philbrook Museum of Art (2018, Tulsa, OK); Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (Bentonville, AR, 2019); and the Gilcrease Museum, (2019, Tulsa, OK).
Fields’ paintings are featured in private collections and the collections of museums
across the country, including: Heard Museum (Phoenix, AZ); Hood Museum (Dartmouth
College, NH); Oklahoma State Museum of Art; Peabody Essex Museum; and Sam Noble Museum
(University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK).
This Gardiner Gallery of Art special exhibition is sponsored by the Oklahoma Arts
Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, Tulsa Artist Fellowship, OSU Museum
of Art, the College of Arts and Sciences, and OSU Student Fees.
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