Description
Delegation is the first comprehensive monograph by Apsaalooke/Crow artist Wendy Red Star, whose photography recasts historical narratives with wit, candor, and a feminist, Indigenous perspective.
Red Star centers Native American life and material culture through imaginative self-portraiture, vivid collages, archival interventions, and site-specific installations. Whether referencing nineteenth-century Crow leaders or 1980s pulp fiction, museum collections or family pictures, she constantly questions the role of the photographer in shaping Indigenous representation. Including a dynamic array of Red Star's lens-based works from 2006 to the present, and a range of essays, stories, and poems, Delegation is a spirited testament to an influential artist's singular vision.
Copublished by Aperture and Documentary Arts
Native America Exhibition Tour:Princeton University Museum of Art, Princeton, NJ / Fall 2022 Milwaukee Art Museum / Spring 2023 USF Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL / Summer 2023 Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas, Austin, TX / Spring 2024
Events: Aperture PhotoBook Club June Event Virtual or in-person conversation co-hosted with a museum/institution. Possible partners include the Joslyn Art Museum, the Pulitzer Foundation, the Denver Art Museum, or the Portland Museum of Art Opening Reception and book signing at Sargent's Daughter gallery Virtual conversation hosted by Birchbark Books Book signing at Powell's Bookstore in Portland, OR
Press Plan: Anticipate book release with an interview in a local Oregonian media Lead with a NYT or T Magazine piece profiling the artist in Art & Leisure covering both the book and her show at Sargent Daughters Pursue national coverage with The Nation, Washington Post, the Atlantic and local with The Oregonian, The Portland Observes, Portland Monthly Pitch reviews of the book at NYT Book Review, Bookforum, NYRB, and Brooklyn Rail Pursue coverage with radio shows at NPR (Fresh Air, Pop Culture Happy Hour, Code Switch)
Influencers/Affiliates:
For each book, we're going to tackle a series of influencers or affiliate profiles to share the news online: Variable West Oregon Contemporary Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts IllumiNative Emerson Collective
Digital:
Instagram takeover with captions written by Wendy and excerpted from the text Pursue online editorial with text from volume on aperture.org Create visual asset kit to share with external people and partners Pursue an editorial newsletter themed with articles on Native American artists/works (tied to either the book launch or ahead of key programming) Potentially pull clips from events into video for social To be included in seasonal paid social campaign in order to drive product awareness and sales
About the Author
Wendy Red Star (born in Billings, Montana, 1981) is an Apsaalooke artist based in Portland, Oregon. Her work has been included in numerous solo and group exhibitions and is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Museum of Modern Art, New York; Brooklyn Museum; Saint Louis Art Museum; and IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe. Red Star guest edited Aperture magazine's Fall 2020 issue, "Native America." Jordan Amirkhani is an art historian, educator, and critic based in Washington, DC. Julia Bryan-Wilson is the Doris and Clarence Malo Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author, most recently, of Fray: Art and Textile Politics (2017). Josh T. Franco is an artist and art historian from West Texas. He is national collector at the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. Annika K. Johnson is associate curator of Native American art at the Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha. Layli Long Soldier is an Oglala Lakota poet, writer, artist, and activist. She is author of the chapbook Chromosomory (2010) and the poetry collection Whereas (2017), which won a National Book Critics Circle award and was a finalist for the 2017 National Book Awards. Tiffany Midge is a poet, writer, and editor. She is author of several books, including the poetry collection The Woman Who Married a Bear (2016) and the memoir Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese's (2019). She is a Hunkpapa Lakota enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux.
Awards
Winner of Joan Mitchell Foundation Emerging Artist Fellow and Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation 2017 and Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship.
Book Information
ISBN 9781597115193
Author Wendy Red Star
Format Hardback
Page Count 224
Imprint Aperture
Publisher Aperture
Weight(grams) 1406g
Red Star centers Native American life and material culture through imaginative self-portraiture, vivid collages, archival interventions, and site-specific installations. Whether referencing nineteenth-century Crow leaders or 1980s pulp fiction, museum collections or family pictures, she constantly questions the role of the photographer in shaping Indigenous representation. Including a dynamic array of Red Star's lens-based works from 2006 to the present, and a range of essays, stories, and poems, Delegation is a spirited testament to an influential artist's singular vision.
Copublished by Aperture and Documentary Arts
Native America Exhibition Tour:
Events:
Press Plan:
Influencers/Affiliates:
For each book, we're going to tackle a series of influencers or affiliate profiles to share the news online:
Digital:
About the Author
Wendy Red Star (born in Billings, Montana, 1981) is an Apsaalooke artist based in Portland, Oregon. Her work has been included in numerous solo and group exhibitions and is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Museum of Modern Art, New York; Brooklyn Museum; Saint Louis Art Museum; and IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe. Red Star guest edited Aperture magazine's Fall 2020 issue, "Native America." Jordan Amirkhani is an art historian, educator, and critic based in Washington, DC. Julia Bryan-Wilson is the Doris and Clarence Malo Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author, most recently, of Fray: Art and Textile Politics (2017). Josh T. Franco is an artist and art historian from West Texas. He is national collector at the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. Annika K. Johnson is associate curator of Native American art at the Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha. Layli Long Soldier is an Oglala Lakota poet, writer, artist, and activist. She is author of the chapbook Chromosomory (2010) and the poetry collection Whereas (2017), which won a National Book Critics Circle award and was a finalist for the 2017 National Book Awards. Tiffany Midge is a poet, writer, and editor. She is author of several books, including the poetry collection The Woman Who Married a Bear (2016) and the memoir Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese's (2019). She is a Hunkpapa Lakota enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux.
Awards
Winner of Joan Mitchell Foundation Emerging Artist Fellow and Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation 2017 and Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship.
Book Information
ISBN 9781597115193
Author Wendy Red Star
Format Hardback
Page Count 224
Imprint Aperture
Publisher Aperture
Weight(grams) 1406g
