Strange Comfort
Alexa Fornoff
As the first contemporary artist to have a solo show at Washington, D.C.'s National Museum of the American Indian, Dunne-za First Nations artist Brian Jungen takes on stereotypes and hostility in Strange Comfort. Using familiar objects like plastic chairs, baseball gloves and sports jerseys, Jungen reclaims materials made for sports franchises like the Braves, Indians and Chiefs and riffs on consumerism and pop culture in the process. Exhibiting now through August 8, 2010; click here for more photos. Image: Blanket No. 7. 2008. Professional sports jerseys. 69 x 53½ in. Courtesy of the Sender Collection. © Brian Jungen.
