She Gives (Quiet Strength V)
She Gives (Quiet Strength V)
Artist
Dyani White Hawk
(Sičangu Lakota, born 1976)
Date2019
MediumAcrylic on canvas
Dimensions60 in. × 48 in. × 1 5/8 in. (152.4 × 121.9 × 4.1 cm)
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineCrystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2020.4
Accession number
2020.4
On View
Not on viewLabel TextSet against a copper ground, black and white diamonds pulse with delicate patterning. The neatly articulated details nod to the continuing practice of Lakota quillwork—a form of embroidery using porcupine quills—which was traditionally done by women. Marrying her admiration for and understanding of Indigenous artistry with abstract painting, Dyani White Hawk (Sičangu Lakota) combines both on a single plane. Throughout her Quiet Strength series, White Hawk foregrounds the enduring contributions of Indigenous women whose work is often excluded from art world discussions of abstraction.
Fijados sobre un fondo cobre, los diamantes blancos y negros se destacan en un delicado patrón. Los detalles prolijamente articulados aluden a la antigua tradición lakota del quillwork, una forma de bordado en la que se utilizan púas de puercoespín, que solían practicar las mujeres. Fusionando su admiración y comprensión del arte indígena con la pintura abstracta, Dyani White Hawk (lakota Sičangu) combina ambas en un mismo plano. A lo largo de su serie Tranquila fortaleza, White Hawk pone de relieve el continuo aporte de las mujeres indígenas, cuya obra suele quedar excluida de los debates sobre la abstracción en el mundo del arte.
