Label Type
Artist CommentaryLabel
Gina Adams
Ojibwe/Lakota, b. 1965
Assimilation Machines, 2016
Chine collet
Collection of the C.N. Gorman Museum, UC Davis. Gift of the artist.
Gina Adams reuses fabric cutouts from a separate body of work, Broken Treaty Quilts, to create her chine collet prints. Adams imagines these fabrics transformed into whimsical machines with the power to decipher and dissolve assimilation practices; in other words, to clean up the world a little bit.
“I imagine them moving along the earth, healing the pain for all Indigenous peoples with forward momentum to heal the history here in the United States.” – Gina Adams