Vernon Bigman is a Navajo artist[1] known for his abstract painting. Bigman's work is housed in the permanent collections at the National Museum of the American Indian and San Francisco Art Institute.[2] As of 2019, Bigman is a library worker for the Pratt Institute.[3]
Education
Bigman was born in 1958[4] and completed his Bachelors in Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute. He also completed a Masters in Fine Arts from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York and received schooling at the Institute of American Indian Arts.[5]
Select artworks
Dreamsnake series
The Dreamsnake series is a collection of five oil paintings on canvas:[6]
- Dream Snakes and Holy Mountain
- Dream Snakes @ The Start of Ying and Yang
- Dream Snakes and The Dreaming Grass
- Dream Dance Kali
- Black Dreams
Other artwork
- Head of Wheel (Canvas, Oil Paint), made 1987, at National Museum of the American Indian[7]
Select exhibitions
- 2020 Revelation Gallery, New York, NY[8]
- 2009 Nathan Cumming Foundation New York, NY
- 2008 New York Public Library, Tompkins Square Gallery, New York, NY
- 2005 Graduate studios, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
- 2005 New York Public Library Tompkins Square Gallery, New York, NY
- 1990 CommuniCations: Public Mirror: Artists Against Racial Prejudice, Museum of Modern Art, Manhattan, New York, NY[9]
Awards
Bigman was awarded an honorable mention in the 2007 SirsiDynix photography calendar competition.[1]
References
- ^ a b Amerinda website
- ^ "Special Collections". SFAI. Retrieved 2020-04-07.
- ^ "Vernon Bigman". Pratt Institute. Retrieved 2020-04-07.
- ^ "Head Of Wheel". Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2020-04-07.
- ^ "NAAR | NATIVE AMERICAN ARTIST ROSTER". www.amerinda.org. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
- ^ "At Resobox, the Dream Snake paintings" (PDF). Resobox.
- ^ "Head Of Wheel". Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2020-04-07.
- ^ The Village Sun website
- ^ MOMA website