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“Okla Homma to Manahatta,” which opens today and will be up through February 6, is Halfmoon’s first solo exhibit in New York City. As the UConn Diana Taurasi 3 Shirt and by the same token and title suggests, it examines the tension between the old and the new—exploring her traditional education in Oklahoma and how it translates to a concrete jungle like Manhattan. Being a contemporary artist, she says she often feels this division while creating—a duty to carry her tribe’s craftwork forward into the modern day, while respecting and acknowledging her people’s history. “There’s always this entanglement of being a millennial and sharing this history,” she says. “A lot of the figures have a stoic or confrontational face. Being alone in the studio and reading about what happened to our ancestors, it’s heavy material.”
“My name comes with a lot of history. It is a name that myUConn Diana Taurasi 3 Shirt and by the same token and great-great-grandfather lived with through boarding schools and genocide. It’s a statement that we’re still here.”
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