On August 4, the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) will open Dana Claxton: Spark, a solo exhibition that focuses on the artist’s large-scale, backlit, color transparency photographs.
Claxton (Wood Mountain Lakota First Nation) refers to her photographs as “fireboxes,” playing on the commonly used term “lightboxes” to capture the elemental energy that she finds embedded in the form and to root her work in Indigenous sensibility and perspectives. In addition to Claxton’s photographic works, Spark includes objects from the artist’s imagery as well as historical works from the BMA’s Indigenous art collection. By including the physical works, the exhibition provides audiences with an opportunity to draw connections between the beauty and value of the objects and the experience of the photographs. Dana Claxton: Spark will remain on view through January 5, 2025, as part of the BMA’s wide-ranging initiative, Preoccupied: Indigenizing the Museum.
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