KAY WALKINGSTICK
Tina Hinrichs
Charlie Hill
Talking Leaves: You’re an Indian? I should have known with those cheekbones!
Talking Leaves: You’re an Indian? I thought you were a Jewish girl from Queens who changed her name.
Description of Artwork
Ethnic Humor Issues address
ancestry and stereotyping
Juxtaposition: placing different words and images side by side
Transposition: placing images in a new context
Parody: recognizable cultural icons or images
Satire: mocking of artists feeling towards the subject
Irony: images used to contradict meanings
Talking Leaves: You're not an Indian. You weren't born on a reservation!
Artist Statement
To express native and non-native shared identity
To paint who she is as an artist and a Native American
“I would hope that these paintings encourage the viewer to see our shared humanity in all of its gritty, frightening, awkward, sexy, funny and beautiful commonality."
Talking Leaves: Enough
“I am the grandmother. I am Kay WalkingStick. Of the people, Cherokee!”