Loser + Clark

Date1999

Maker Brad Kahlhamer American, born 1956

Label TextKahlhamer skewers grandiose notions of Western expansion and Manifest Destiny from the perspective of a Native American, not to mention co-opting the outward expressions of inner states as practiced by Abstract Expressionists such as Arshile Gorky. Like most of the artists in this gallery, he builds upon and pushes forward traditions of painting by positing a more open, hybridized, and ultimately contemporary form of figuration.

Object number2002.25

Exhibition HistoryTacoma, Washington, Tacoma Art Museum, Lewis and Clark Territory: Contemporary Artists Revist Race, Place and Memory, Feb. 14, 2004 - Mar. 21, 2005. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, SAM Collects: ContemporaryArtProject, Dec. 20, 2002 - Apr. 6, 2003. Text by Tara Reddy Young. No cat. no., pp. 16-17, 67, reproduced pl. 4. New York, New York, Deitch Western, Brad Kahlhamer: Friendly Frontier. Oct.14 - Nov. 6, 1999. Text by Jeffrey Deitch. Installation image used as exhibition poster.Published ReferencesCollins, Tom. Looking at a Legend. Albuquerque Journal North. August 16, 2002. Deitch, Jeffrey, Dean Sobel, and Mariuccia Casadio. 2007. Brad Kahlhamer. Milan: Ediziono Charta. Fleissig, Peter. 1999. Friendly Frontier. New York: Deitch Projects. Mahoney, Robert. 1999. Native Speakers. Artnet. <http://www.artnet.com>

Credit LineGift of the ContemporaryArtProject, Seattle

Dimensions84 x 120 in. (213.4 x 304.8 cm)

MediumOil on canvas