Jordan Ann Craig: Block Museum - Northwestern University
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Jordan Ann Craig

January 25-April 6, 2025
Alsdorf Gallery
Jordan Ann Craig, Baby You're So Blue [detail], 2021 Acrylic on canvas 44 7/8 × 44 7/8 in. Gochman Family Collection. Copyright of the artist

The Block Museum will present 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.

The Block is working closely with the artist to develop a focused exhibition that reflects current preoccupations and directions in her artistic practice.

 

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/

 

Jordan Ann Craig Too Slow, Go Back to Crow, 2023

Jordan Ann Craig Too Slow, Go Back to Crow, 2023

Acrylic on canvas 178.1 x 165.1 x 6.3 cm. Courtesy the artist and Hales, London and New York. Photo by JSP Art Photography.
Jordan Ann Craig, Baby You're So Blue, 2021

Jordan Ann Craig, Baby You're So Blue, 2021

Acrylic on canvas 44 7/8 × 44 7/8 in. Gochman Family Collection. Copyright of the artist