Vernon Bigman
Vernon Bigman is a Navajo artist known for his abstract painting. Bigman's work is housed in the permanent collections at the National Museum of the American Indian and San Francisco Art Institute.[1] As of 2019, Bigman is a library worker for the Pratt Institute.[2]
Education
Bigman received a Bachelors in Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute and a Masters in Fine Arts from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. He also received schooling at the Institute of American Indian Arts.[3]
Select artworks
Dreamsnake series
The Dreamsnake series is a collection of five oil paintings on canvas:[4]
- Dream Snakes and Holy Mountain
- Dream Snakes @ The Start of Ying and Yang
- Dream Snakes and The Dreaming Grass
- Dream Dance Kali
- Black Dreams
Other artwork
- Head of Wheel (Canvas, Oil Paint), made 1987, at National Museum of the American Indian[5]
Select exhibitions
- 2009 Nathan Cumming Foundation New York, NY
- 2008 New York Public Library, Tompkins Square Gallery, New York, NY
- 2005 Graduate studios, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
- 2005 New York Public Library Tompkins Square Gallery, New York, NY
- 1990 CommuniCations: Public Mirror: Artists Against Racial Prejudice, Museum of Modern Art, Manhattan, New york, NY
Awards
Bigman was awarded an honorable mention in the 2007 SirsiDynix photography calendar competition.
References
- "Special Collections". SFAI. Retrieved 2020-04-07.
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{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - "NAAR | NATIVE AMERICAN ARTIST ROSTER". www.amerinda.org. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - "At Resobox, the Dream Snake paintings" (PDF). Resobox.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - "Head Of Wheel". Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2020-04-07.
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