Exhibit Installation underway thanks to Guest Curator, Luanne Redeye
August 5, 2024 | Binghamton University Art Museum
Guest curator, Luanne Redeye, who currently resides in California, guides preparation staff and volunteers on the installation of the exhibition.
Redeye is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art Practice at the University of California, Berkeley and guest curator of the exhibition. Primarily a figurative artist, her work intersects autobiography and community. An enrolled member of the Seneca Nation of Indians and Hawk Clan, Luanne grew up on the Allegany Indian Reservation in Western New York. It is from there that she draws inspiration – incorporating community, family, and culture into her artwork, giving her pieces a strong personal and emotional component. Whether her art touches on the native experience, identity, or resiliency, Luanne’s work is always created through a native lens sharing her experiences, knowledge, and perspective of navigating a modern world as a native woman.
Homelands: Contemporary Haudenosaunee Art Across New York Opening reception: Thursday, September 5, 5-7pm
Homelands: Contemporary Haudenosaunee Art Across New York unites multigenerational Haudenosaunee artists and knowledge holders who center their historical relationship and reciprocity to the land, air, and waters across New York State. Working through diverse practices including photography, painting, sculpture, basketry, beadwork and documentary, the landscape is not a backdrop, but integral to Haudenosaunee culture and lived experience, which is woven into the work. The exhibition serves as a visual form of Indigenous knowledge sharing. It reclaims space and history through art, inviting visitors to reconnect with the land beneath their feet.
Guest curated by Luanne Redeye (Seneca), Assistant Professor, Department of Art Practice, University of California, UC Berkeley. Generous support is provided by the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional assistance provided by Joshua DeMarree and the E.W. Heier Teaching and Research Greenhouses, and the Binghamton Native American and Indigenous Studies Working Group.
Ja:göh Hayden Haynes (Seneca, Deer Clan). They used his photo The Spirit of the Corn, 2023, for the exhibition poster. (Pictured left)
