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Image courtesy the artist and Peter Blum Gallery, New York. Photo by Jason Wyche
Unconverted/Converted
Nicholas Galanin pairs a deer hide with a panel shaped and painted according to a digitized image of the deer hide. The digital conversion uses a small set of samples or points, resulting in distinctly less information. Galanin’s deer hide and its digital replica express the types of conversion that nearly all Indigenous people in the Americas have faced due to European colonization and settlement.
ArtistNicholas Galanin, Lingít and Unangax̂, born 1979
Date2022
MediumDeer hide and acrylic on wood, diptych
Dimensions43 x 46 1/2 x 1/8 in. (109.2 x 118.1 x 0.3 cm) (111.8 x 121.3 x 0.6 cm)
Signedacrylic on wood panel, verso, c., in black ink: [signature] / 2022
Inscription(s)deer hide, verso, u.c., in black ink: B+
Credit LineCrystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2025.7
ClassificationMixed Media
Provenance(Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY); purchased by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR, 2025
On ViewYes
This artwork's face covers about 274× the area of a tennis ball.Drawn to the same scale.
