Detail of performance activation by artist and basketmaker Max Romero (Mi’kmaq & Laguna/Taos Pueblo) for Shane Charles’ Gathering; Moon Worship, 2020. Photo courtesy of Carolyn Wachnicki
Gathering:
Moon Phase
October 14 - November 9, 2022
Shane Charles
Opening Reception: October 14, 6-9pm
NARS Main Gallery
For Gathering; Moon Phase, Shane Charles has recreated materials from Native Soil (2015-2020), a series of hand-stitched wood ash and paint mosaics commemorating his father’s work as the Penobscot Nation’s surveyor after the 1980 Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act. His Father passed on Memorial Day, 2020.
Gathering; Moon Phase also incorporates movement-based artists Kayva Yang and Domenica Garcia with pieces commissioned from Maine-based craftsmen (canoe builders, machinists, and ceramists) in homage to Yves Klein's body-print work Anthropometry.
Shane Charles received his Master of Fine Arts degree from UNC at Chapel Hill, where he focused on sculpture and performance. Previously he studied painting at the University of Maine through the indigenous Wabanaki program.
He has received significant support through commissions, collections, or solo exhibitions by many museums and Fine Art institutions, including NARS Foundation, NYC (2022); Space Gallery, Portland, ME, with funding from the Andy Warhol Foundation (2022); the Goethe-Institut Boston (2021); the Center for Maine Contemporary Art (2020); the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (2019); Wassaic Project (2019); I-Park Foundation (2019); the School of Visual Arts, NYC (2018); the Institute of Contemporary Art at MECA&D (2015); and the Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC (2015), among others.
Support for this exhibition generously provided by:
