Last of the Lakotah Dream Catchers: The Art of Roger Broer & Richard Red Owl
On view through October 30, 2022
The Brinton Museum
Big Horn, Wyoming
thebrintonmuseum.org
“Last of the Lakota Dream Catchers” represents the first two-person exhibit at The Brinton Museum of contemporary works by renowned artists Roger Broer and Richard Red Owl.
Born in 1945 in Omaha, Nebraska, Roger Broer was removed from his Lakotan mother and placed in an orphanage. Later, he returned to the Pine Ridge Reservation and earned a Bachelor of Arts with an extended Fine Arts Degree in 1972 from then Eastern Montana College. Broer has multiple credit hours toward an MFA at Central Washington University in Ellensburg, Washington. Broer prefers a “modified form of monotype using oil paints” to create richly stylized images portraying human figures.
Richard Red Owl, born in 1940 in Pine Ridge, South Dakota, has spent the larger part of his life as a resident on the reservation. He is largely self-taught and prefers the medium of acrylic for its quick drying time, which he feels works well for his artistic style. Both artists’ works convey an intensive introspective creativity while also focusing on the harmony of race.
Broer and Red Owl are represented in numerous private and public collections and are the recipients of several prestigious awards. They have exhibited their art nationally, and Broer abroad as well. They are among the nine original members of the Dream Catchers Artist Guild founded in 1983.
[Image: Richard Red Owl, Sunrise Prayer. Acrylic, 24” x 30”]
