Escher-ish Horn Spoon
Kevin Pourier
Arts of the Americas
On View: American Art Galleries, 5th Floor, Counterparts
Native American artists Marcellus and Elizabeth Toya Medina and Kevin Pourier create works inspired by both old and new art forms. The painted designs on the water jar of classic Pueblo shape combine traditional masked Kachinas in static poses with naturalistic, muscled, male Pueblo dancers who seem to burst off the vessel’s surface. The inlaid buffalo-horn spoon, a traditional Plains implement, is given a contemporary twist in Pourier’s homage to M. C. Escher’s hypnotic prints.
MEDIUM
Buffalo horn, mother-of-pearl, resin
DATES
2009
DIMENSIONS
3 1/2 x 17 in. (8.9 x 43.2 cm) (show scale)
COLLECTIONS
Arts of the Americas
ACCESSION NUMBER
2010.61
CREDIT LINE
Gift of William A. Putnam, by exchange
PROVENANCE
December 9, 2010, purchased from the artist by the Brooklyn Museum.
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MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is on view in American Art Galleries, 5th Floor, Counterparts
CAPTION
Kevin Pourier (Oglala, Lakota, Sioux, born 1958). Escher-ish Horn Spoon, 2009. Buffalo horn, mother-of-pearl, resin, 3 1/2 x 17 in. (8.9 x 43.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of William A. Putnam, by exchange
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IMAGE
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