Label Type
Artist CommentaryLabel
Wendy Red Star
Apsáalooke (Crow), b. 1981
The (HUD), 2010
Lithograph with photographs printed on Rives BFK white and Moab entrada rag natural photo paper
Collection of the C.N. Gorman Museum, UC Davis. Membership Fund Acquisition.
This work depicts affordable housing provided by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on the Crow Indian Reservation. The colors of the homes were not chosen by the residents, but by the government. Wendy Red Star’s father speculated that the colors of the houses were the result of the government buying the cheapest paint available.
“Often times my work is labeled as political even if I am just documenting my own environment, which may seem political to the colonial norm but benign to me. I am an observer of my world and whether or not my documenting it through art is understood as political, it should certainly be understood as reimagining what can initially appear as shabby or discarded as something resilient and alive.” – Wendy Red Star