Todd Behrens
Curator of the Sioux City Art Center-
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"The paintings that Howe did, especially in the 1960s, when being a truly contemporary Native American artist was still a radical thing, you can see how…
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"Photography has been around for almost a hundred and eighty years, and even now there are still some people who fight against photography being an…
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"It's a pretty small step sometimes to take something that is basic and make it something more meaningful," says Behrens. "And I think that's what Robert…
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"…It's just an extraordinary work of how the most simple objects around us, the most basic environmental landscapes you might imagine, holds much more…
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"Virtually every color you can imagine I think is in this painting. And what it does is it brings added attention to those few desserts that you can…
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"You end up with just this visual delight. Everything seems unified and connected and everything seems at the same time really varied and disparate and…
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"There are so many different layers of paint that she uses, and that layering is very important to her…" says Behrens. "…This misty quality that she…
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"At any one view, you only get a partial glimpse of something. And so, as you move around the sculpture… you start to learn a little bit more about what's…
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"It's a sculpture that reminds us you can be an experienced artist and still find joy in what you're doing… it connects on many different levels with…