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Haines Gallery: 250 Years, Indigenous Futures
Eight Native American artists in painting, drawing, sculpture, film and photography, centring Indigenous futurity at the U.S. 250th. Building C, Tue–Sat.
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Jamie Okuma has beaded two figures from Luca Guadagnino's horror film Suspiria onto a brain-tanned deerskin handbag, in single-stitched antique glass seed beads and steel spikes. It stands on a walnut base with silk cord and curtains, under the title Of Love and Sacrifice: Motherhood.
Eight Native American artists show painting, drawing, beadwork, photography and film. The show is timed to the U.S. 250th but doesn't commemorate it: the gallery points out that in San Francisco, 1776 is also the year the Spanish founded the Presidio. You can watch Sky Hopinka's 12-minute film Sunflower Siege Engine, which links the 1969 to 1971 occupation of Alcatraz with Illinois' Cahokia Mounds, then walk out to the piers, where Alcatraz is in plain view.
It's free, on the first floor of Building C, open Tuesday to Saturday from 10:30am to 5:30pm until 7 November. Haines is a commercial gallery, and several works on its list are already sold.
Look for
Jamie Okuma's Suspiria handbag
Look for two figures from the 2018 horror film worked in antique seed beads and steel spikes across a brain-tanned deerskin handbag.
Wendy Red Star's HUD houses
Government-built houses from the Crow reservation where Red Star grew up, their agency-chosen colors stacked into towers against bright satin backgrounds.
Brad Kahlhamer's Pima Air + Space
A bedsheet painted in acrylic, ink and pencil, with birds, horses and masked figures drifting through an aurora of saturated color.
Terran Last Gun's ledger drawings
Bold geometric designs from Piikani painted lodges, drawn in ink and colored pencil over the gridded pages of 1910s veterinarian records ledgers.
Keith Secola's book covers
Archival portraits of Native Americans screen-printed onto vintage book covers, including a 1967 book of presidents and famous Americans, with sitters looking straight back at you.
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Image credits
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- Haines Gallery: 250 Years, Indigenous FuturesFort Mason Center for Arts & Culture / Haines Gallery
- Rex RayCourtesy of Minnesota Street Project
- 20 Years - Anniversary ExhibitionCourtesy of Minnesota Street Project
- Isadora Gullov-Singh: Traces We HoldCourtesy of Minnesota Street Project
- Fort Mason Center for Arts & CultureBrocken Inaglory / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0