Webbed skies / Melissa Cody ; curated by Isabella Rjeille, Ruba Katrib ; texs by Ann Lane Hedlund, Isabella Rjeille, Jennifer Nez Denetdale, Ruba Katrib ; edited by Isabella Rjeille.
Publisher:
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Catalog of an exhibition held MASP, Museu de Arte São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, São Paulo, Brazil, October 20, 2023-January 21, 2024; and MoMA PS1 (P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center), Queens, New York, April 4, 2024-September 2, 2024. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
MoMA PS1. Ann Lane Hedlund. Melissa Cody at MoMA PS1 / Connie Butler, Director, MoMA PS1 -- Indigenous arts at MASP: inclusion and representation / Edson Kayapó, Kássia Borges Karajá, and Renata Tupinambá, Curators-at-Large of Indigenous Art, MASP. Selected bibliography -- In the Spider Woman's thread / Isabella Rjeille ; translated from the Portuguese by Adriana Francisco -- Technologies of tradition / Ruba Katrib -- Skies, rivers, and rainbows: Melissa Cody's visions of the good Diné life / Jennifer Nez Denetdale -- Spider Woman greets the dawn / Ann Lane Hedlund. Reproductions of works -- Exhibition checklist -- Exhibition history -- Selected bibliography -- MASP, Museu de Arte São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand -- MoMA PS1. 71. 27. "Small Eye Dazzler, 2001-2005", wool warp, weft, selvedge, cords, and vegetal dyes, 36 x 30 cm, the Heard Museum, gift of Kenneth and Anita Baldwin, Phoenix, Arizona, United States / [Melissa Cody], [Heard Museum], photography by Craig Smith. 71. "Small Eye Dazzler, 2001-2005", wool warp, weft, selvedge, cords, and vegetal dyes, 36 x 30 cm, the Heard Museum, gift of Kenneth and Anita Baldwin, Phoenix, Arizona, United States / [Melissa Cody], [Heard Museum], photography by Craig Smith.
Summary:
"MoMA PS1 will present the first major solo exhibition of fourth-generation Navajo weaver Melissa Cody (b. 1983, No Water Mesa, Arizona), co-organized with the Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (MASP). On view from April 4 through September 2, 2024, Melissa Cody: Webbed Skies spans the last decade of her practice, showcasing over 30 weavings and featuring three major new commissions. Cody uses traditional methods, sophisticated patterns, and handmade dyes to underscore tapestries as potent technologies for visual storytelling, nodding to their influence on present-day digital automation. Honoring the medium's histories, Cody's works underscore critical conversations around placemaking and Indigenous futures through resilience and ingenuity. The title of the exhibition, Webbed Skies, refers to the sky as a unifying element of all territories, connecting distinct narratives and methods of coexistence beyond borders. Cody's tapestries carry forward the methods of traditional Navajo Germantown weaving, which developed out of the wool and blankets that were made in Germantown, Pennsylvania and supplied by the US government to the Navajo people during the forced expulsion from their territories in the mid-1800s. While acknowledging this history and working on a traditional Navajo loom, Cody's masterful works exercise experimental palettes and patterns that animate through reinvention, reframing traditions as cycles of evolution. Melissa Cody: Webbed Skies is organized by Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand - MASP and MoMA PS1. The exhibition is curated by Isabella Rjeille, Curator, MASP, and Ruba Katrib, Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, MoMA PS1. Exhibition research and support is provided by Andrea Sánchez, Coordinator of Curatorial Affairs, MoMA PS1."--MoMA PS1 description of exhibition.
Indexed by:
Indexed in the Native American Artists Resource Collection Online, Billie Jane Baguley Library and Archives, Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, at the artist name level (January 16, 2024) https://5019.sydneyplus.com/Heard_Museum_ArgusNET_Final/Portal.aspx
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1417272966
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.