Author: Red Star, WendyThis volume provides a new perspective on the role of archives, museum collections and personal memory in Wendy Red Star’s work. An Apsáalooke (Crow) artist, she works across mediums to reconsider and liberate archival photographs and materials from a fixed historical moment. Starting with the Peace Crow Delegation series (2014), she articulates the connections between her annotated 19th-century portraits and her recontextualised hand-painted illustrations of artefacts.Red Star juxtaposes these with her own photographs of the Crow Nation’s annual fair in Montana. Returning to her handwritten notes in the Bíiluuke series (2023), Red Star also provides a nuanced intervention with Apsáalooke heritage items from several public collections. More than a meditation on the past, Red Star’s archival work looks to the future and offers a new perspective on rematriation.Wendy Red Star (born 1981) was born in Billings, Montana, and lives and works in Portland, Oregon. She earned her BFA from Montana State University, Bozeman, and her MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles. Red Star's first solo exhibition, A Scratch on the Earth, opened at the Newark Museum of Art and toured to the San Antonio Museum of Art and the Columbus Museum of Art. She has received numerous awards and grants including a 2018 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, a 2022 Anonymous Was A Woman Grant and a 2024 MacArthur Fellowship.ISBN 9798986973548. The Trout Gallery, Dickinson College. pb. 90 pages. 35 colour ills. 26.7 x 26.1 cm.available
