The Block Museum presents a solo exhibition of work by the artist Jordan Ann Craig. Craig is known for large-scale paintings, prints, and painting-inspired installations. Her work develops out of an engagement with abstraction rooted in Northern Cheyenne and other Indigenous aesthetic traditions and a dynamic and innovative exploration of color, line, and form. Craig’s practice often begins with research in museum collections and archives, studying, learning from, and engaging in a dialogue with a variety of Indigenous artistic forms including beadwork, pottery, and textiles. This focused exhibition reflects the current preoccupations and directions in her artistic practice.
Exhibition Keynote:
Jordan Ann Craig in conversation with m.s. RedCherries
Wednesday, February 26, 6PM
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It takes a long time to stay here: Paintings by Jordan Ann Craig is curated by Kathleen Bickford Berzock, Associate Director of Curatorial Affairs, Janet Dees, former Steven and Lisa Munster Tananbaum Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art and Jacqueline Lopez, 2024–25 Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellow, at The Block Museum of Art.
This exhibition is partially supported by the Alsdorf Gallery Endowment and a grant from the Illinois Arts Council. Additional generous support is provided by the Alumnae of Northwestern University. Support for this publication has been provided by Hales Gallery, New York.
About the Artist
Jordan Ann Craig (b. 1992 San Jose, CA) is a Northern Cheyenne artist living and working in Pojoaque Valley, New Mexico. She grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and received her B.A. in Studio Art and Psychology from Dartmouth College. She is the recipient of several fellowships and residencies including from the Golden Foundation for the Arts; the School for Advanced Research; the Institute for American Indian Arts; the Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program; the Ucross Foundation; East London Printmakers Project; Cork Printmakers International; and the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica. Her works are in the collection of the Guggenheim Museum, New York; Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH; Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art, Roswell, NM; IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM; Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS; and Forge Collection, Taghkanic, NY, among others.
https://www.jordananncraig.com/
Image: Installation view with Artist, Jordan Ann Craig, The Armory Show, 5 September - 8 September, 2024, Javits Center, New York, USA
Jordan Ann Craig Too Slow, Go Back to Crow, 2023
