Rick Rivet: Journeys, Mounds and the Metaphysical
On view February 10 – July 2, 2023
IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts
Santa Fe, New Mexico
iaia.edu/mocna
“Rick Rivet: Journeys, Mounds and the Metaphysical” includes more than twenty of Rick Rivet’s (Sahtu-Métis) most iconic artworks from the past 30 years. Born in Aklavik, Northwest Territories in the Canadian Arctic, and growing up in a Metis family of mixed Indigenous and European descent, Rivet’s acrylic and mixed-media paintings are influenced by ancient shamanic and spiritual traditions and modern and contemporary Western art movements.
Describing his work as “intuitive, expressionistic, and individualistic,” Rivet combines and reinterprets the iconography of various Indigenous peoples through a “process of integration and actualization of conscious and unconscious experiences.”
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[Image: Rick Rivet (Sahtu-Métis), Cat’s Cradle No. 5, 2005. Acrylic and collage on canvas, 43.5 in x 43.5 in. Photograph courtesy of the artist.]
