Unconverted/Converted
Unconverted/Converted
Artist
Nicholas Galanin
(Lingít and Unangax̂, born 1979)
Date2022
MediumDeer hide and acrylic on wood, diptych
DimensionsLeft panel (deer hide): 43 × 46 1/2 × 1/8 in. (109.2 × 118.1 × 0.3 cm)
Right panel (acrylic on wood): 44 × 47 3/4 × 1/4 in. (111.8 × 121.3 × 0.6 cm)
Right panel (acrylic on wood): 44 × 47 3/4 × 1/4 in. (111.8 × 121.3 × 0.6 cm)
ClassificationsMixed Media
Credit LineCrystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2025.7
Signedacrylic on wood panel, verso, c., in black ink: [signature] / 2022
Accession number
2025.7
On View
On viewCollections
Label TextNicholas Galanin pairs a deer hide with a panel shaped and painted according to a digitized image of the deer hide. The digital conversion uses a small set of samples or points, resulting in distinctly less information. Galanin’s deer hide and its digital replica express the types of conversion that nearly all Indigenous people in the Americas have faced due to European colonization and settlement.
Nicholas Galanin coloca un cuero de ciervo junto a un panel moldeado y pintado según una imagen digitalizada del cuero de ciervo. La conversión digital utiliza un pequeño conjunto de muestras o puntos, que dan como resultado una cantidad de información claramente menor. El cuero de ciervo de Galanin y su réplica digital expresan los tipos de conversión a los que se han enfrentado casi todos los pueblos indígenas de América debido a la colonización y el asentamiento europeos.
Inscribeddeer hide, verso, u.c., in black ink: B+
