Hockaday to exhibit work of Blackfeet artist Terran Last Gun — Live art demos, talk and reception planned

Blackfeet visual artist Terran Last Gun/Sah’kwiinaamah’kaa will create new works of art through live demonstrations scheduled in April at the Hockaday Museum of Art.

His solo exhibit, Piikani Visual Sovereignty, will be on display April 5 through June 22. The exhibit, Piikani Visual Sovereignty, features more than 25 serigraphs and ledger art. His work centers on the process of color exploration and visual documentation of nature, cosmos, cultural narratives, and recollections of home. Employing contemporary geometric shapes from traditional Blackfeet lodges and visual iconography, Last Gun sees his work and artistic processes as a contribution to an ancient Indigenous North American narrative through various media including printmaking, ledger drawing, painting, and photography.

“My work bridges the ancient to the contemporary. It reaches beyond, all while creating visual color stimulation in my varied approaches to making art: printmaking, painting, photography, and ledger drawing. I am revealing fragments of time, history, and Indigenous Abstraction — an art form that has continued for tens of thousands of years. I am creating a new Piikani art form that is bold, vivid, even humorous at times and has minimalist and geometric qualities that are potent in meaning, content, and place,” says his artist statement at terranlastgun.com.