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 was thrilled to announce a solo exhibition featuring Osage, Muscogee and Cherokee artist Yatika Fields. The exhibition opened on Wednesday, September 18, 2024, and was viewed through Friday, October 25, 2024.
Yatika Fields, renowned for his innovative painting and sculpture, showcased 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 presented 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 served as a dynamic studio space, where Fields created a new painting
over a two-day period. This new work joins a series of his paintings dating back to
2010, providing a comprehensive look at Fields' artistic practice.
To celebrate, a public reception was held on Saturday, September 28, from 3:00 to 6:00 p.m. The event featured 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.
The exhibition was free and open to the public. The exhibition was 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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