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| EN FOCO | Photographers | |
 © Larry McNeil, In the True Spirit of White Man, Fly by Night Mythology series, 2002. Archival pigment print, 24x41  © Larry McNeil, Tlatk, The Land, Fly by Night Mythology series, 2000. Archival pigment print, 26x41  © Larry McNeil,Twins, Fly by Night Mythology series, 2000 |
Larry McNeil Born: 1955, Juneau, Alaska, USA Lives in Boise, Idaho Heritage: Tlingit/Native American Selected Exhibitions: National Museum of the American Indian, New York, NY, 2001 Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, 2001 Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM, 2000 Ansel Adams Center for Photography, San Francisco, CA, 1999 Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 1997 Education: Master of Fine Arts, University of New Mexico, 1999 Bachelor of Arts, Brooks Institute, 1978 Awards: All Roads Indigenous Photography Award, National Geographic, 2006 Juror’s Choice Award, Santa Fe Center for Photography, 2004 En Foco New Works Photography Awards, 2001-02 Van Deren Coke Fellowship, 1999 Publications: Nueva Luz, Volume 12#1 (En Foco Inc, Bronx NY: 2007) Native Nations (Barbican Art Centre Press, London: 1998) Artist’s Statement: “If you were to sift everything else out of my art you would be left with pure Tlingit attitude, circa 1895. The good stuff. My ‘Fly by Night Mythology’ work is about American Mythology, Ravens, the intersection of cultures, and finding the scared in unlikely places. It is about Tonto being transformed into an indigenous intellectual. Some of the work is about family, and their presence, personalities and drive is as real as the blood in my veins. I love them and honor them by not compromising the things that count. I am literally and precisely the message from my ancestors. They say that artists make art about what they see all the time, and I must say that I see a lot of peculiar things. The power pole inspired part of The Power Series because it referred to going on a journey for sacred power. The idea of photographing something as mundane as power poles and linking them to the fake Santa Fe Medicine people seemed sublime to me, which was just too juicy to pass up. Lots of curators have been happy with this sacred series, so it must have been a sacred journey after all... I still can’t get anyone to pay me for them though. Dang.” Website: |
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