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Mixed media
Untitled (Badlands)
Juventino Aranda, (Walla Walla, WA, 1984 – )
Aranda, Juventino
American
1984
Male
Artist
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Oil on wool Pendleton blanket
Oil on wool Pendleton blanket
2018
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2018
Mixed media
Juventino Aranda created this painting by applying oil stick and paint to a striped Badlands National Park blanket from Pendleton Woolen Mills. The resulting fields of color evoke the paintings of Abstract Expressionist Mark Rothko (1903–1970) but are interrupted by a dripping mass of black paint that references the extraction of oil and other natural resources on national lands.
Pendleton has produced blankets based on Native American designs since the late 1800s. The blankets are often given as gifts and used in ceremonies in tribal communities, but in recent years they have also become expensive commodities trendy among consumers who have little knowledge of the designs’ origins or meanings. After touring one of Pendleton’s factories near his hometown of Walla Walla, Washington, Aranda began making works using the company’s discarded products, highlighting the ongoing appropriation and exploitation of Indigenous culture in American society.
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Frye Art Museum
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