First American Art Magazine No. 14, Spring 2017 | Page 3

Jan. 26 –April 2, 2017
Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art
The University of Oklahoma
555 Elm Ave.
Norman, OK 73019-3003
fjjma.ou.edu // @fjjma
Admission is always free.
An exhibition of photography by Will Wilson (U.S., Navajo; b. 1969) extends the body of
portraiture of Native Americans in Oklahoma, while shifting preconceptions about the
historical narrative within which the Native community is often presented. The title refers
to both the use of photography as a medium and the synthesis of Edward S. Curtis’s
original work into the construction of a body of photography that extends and empowers
Native representation from the historic into the present.
PHOTO/SYNTHESIS is supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the
Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
For accommodations, please call Visitor Services at
[phone]. The University of Oklahoma is an
equal opportunity institution. www.ou.edu/eoo
Will Wilson (U.S., Navajo; b. 1969)
Gordon L. Yellowman, Citizen of Cheyenne & Arapaho Tribes [detail] (2016)
Archival pigment print from wet plate collodion scan, 8 x 10 in.; Image courtesy of the artist
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