Joe Feddersen
oe Fedderson Geese Flying, 2015 Monoprint with spray paint, 30 x 22 in.
Black Ghost, 2015 Monoprint with spray paint, 30 x 22 in.
Joe Feddersen (Colville, b. 1953)
Geese Flying 2015. Monoprint spray repeating paint. 30 x 22 inches. Geese Flying andOver, Black Ghost with have elements that almost mirror each other. Black Ghost, 2015. Monoprint with spray paint and blind embossing. 30 x 22 inches. Published by the artist. Boat glyphs andof Jordan triangles in Geese Flying highlight water and wind, across which travel Collection D. Schnitzer he tree, the human and the animal. In Black Ghost, the wide line through the center Geese Flying Over and Black Ghost have repeating elements that almost mirror ains downeach in other. red while ghostlyandimages seem to hover a fog abovewater the and red storm. Boat glyphs triangles in Geese Flyingin Over highlight across which travel the tree,multiple the human and the animal. In Blackwhether Ghost, land and The subtlywind, segmented artworks evoke worlds simultaneously; the wide line through the center rains down in red while ghostly images seem to ea, an underworld and an the overworld, even thesegmented past andartworks present.evoke Fedderson hover in a fog above red storm.orThe subtly multiple explains worlds simultaneously; whether land and sea, an underworld and an overworld, hat he draws forpresent. his artworks fromexplains the visual of the Plateau or eveninspiration the past and Feddersen that heculture draws inspiration for his Indians, from thelies visual of the Plateau that his “interest liesa modtating thatartworks his “interest in culture the zone where theIndians, signs stating tenuously dissolve into in the zone where the signs tenuously dissolve into a modernist aesthetic while still rnist aesthetic whiledirect still maintaining directdesigns. ties to” Black the Ghost Plateaureminds designs.” Black maintaining ties to the Plateau us that the Ghost earth’s past haunts the present, and that all land acts as a site of memorial. eminds us that the earth’s past haunts the present, and that all land acts as a site of memorial.
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