Tiny Gallery Erwin Park
Visit Tiny Gallery Erwin Park
Stephen Black
“This Tiny Gallery project is a site-specific installation. The concept is inspired by the Gallery itself, and intended to be viewed in darkness; the daylight view, it should be noted, may suggest a garish stage set. At sundown when it gets dark the gallery lights will turn on. I don’t generally make free standing sculptures like these—my work has been primarily wall constructions—so this is a new form. A few of these pieces are scaled down versions of larger works that were in progress when Tiny Gallery got in touch about doing something. The others are actual size. In any case, it’s about the gallery space itself.” —Stephen Black
Prior shows
Darby Raymond-Overstreet (Diné)
Sept 8 - Feb 4
“As a Diné artist I find that working with patterns is the most illuminating way for me to explore and expand my understanding of the world. Much of my work is about identity. I’m interested in how cultural practices of art influence and inform collective identity, and additionally, how our relationships to our ancestries, our contemporaries, and our descendants culminate to define personal identities and perspectives.”
Darby Raymond-Overstreet is an award winning digital artist and printmaker. Born in Tuba City Arizona, and raised in Flagstaff Arizona, she is a proud member of the Navajo Nation. She received her B.A.s in Psychology and Studio Art and graduated with Honors from Dartmouth College in 2016. She currently resides in Chimayó, NM and through her work she studies, works with and creates Navajo/Diné pattern designs that materialize through portraits, landscapes, and abstract forms. Her work is heavily inspired by and derived from Traditional Diné/Navajo textiles, with particular interest in pieces woven in the late 1800’s-1950’s.
