For many years Tripp has been involved in reviving Karuk ceremonies that had been discontinued for decades, he developed his signature abstract style, based in Karuk design, ceremonial regalia forms, and related cultural and political iconography. The two works in the KADIST collection are a continuation of these forms with in the medium of sculpture.
Brian D. Tripp was born in Eureka, California in 1945 with Karuk ancestry, from the Klamath upriver watershed. Tripp has been deeply involved with ceremonial culture throughout his life with exhibitions and posts placing him at the forefront of an important California Native American artistic and cultural renaissance.
For many years Tripp has been involved in reviving Karuk ceremonies that had been discontinued for decades, he developed his signature abstract style, based in Karuk design, ceremonial regalia forms, and related cultural and political iconography...
Carland’s series of large-format photographs Lesbian Beds (2002) depicts beds that have been recently vacated...
These two large format untitled paintings by James Collins feature the artist’s hallmark technique, which transforms abstraction into an optical illusion that creates dimension, space, and mass...
In this work, Saâdane Afif quotes André Cadere’s round wooden batons using the copy share and remix principles...
For many years Tripp has been involved in reviving Karuk ceremonies that had been discontinued for decades, he developed his signature abstract style, based in Karuk design, ceremonial regalia forms, and related cultural and political iconography...