Lot #33
Jessica Christy
Jessica Christy’s field notes for each work:
Valley City, North Dakota Whitewash: #0015, #0010, #0016, 2012
#0010, Bison Bones:
#0010, bison bones
Material: Bison rib bones
#0015, lithograph
Provenance: Animalia, Chordata, Mammalia, Artiodactyla,
#0016, sheet metal and oil
Bovidae, Bison (Tatanka)
Each 15 x 8 x 2 inches
Description: The railroads, which today carry signs of
Range: $600 – 800 for all three
economical prosperity were at one time a contributing factor to the fall of the sacred buffalo.
Jessica Christy: Coexistence of the indigenous and non-indigenous has been grounds for scenarios played out in everything from politics to Hollywood. Christy’s work explores
Notes: Over hunting (desirable buffalo hide). Railroad development. Room for cattle ranges. Development of grazing land.
the juxtaposition of these two cultural conditions. Whitewash:
#0015, Spider
specimens of the hipster class, Hollywood propaganda, and
Material: lithograph on paper.
miscellaneous paraphernalia of the American dream, explores
Provenance: Iktomi vs creepy crawly.
the contribution of the digital world to this dialogue of
Description:
coexistence. Not only does it offer a platform for many views to
phobiato the Natives, spiders bring well being.
collide, it also allows for accessibility to these perspectives—an
Notes: Spider woman spun the world and her web connects us
opportunity easily made but not easily deleted. Each feather-
all. Killing a spider disconnects us from this web.
shaped work is representative of a misappropriation of the culture. From here, it is treated as a piece of archived material and accessioned into the series with a number and provenance.
While regarded as a creepy crawly worthy of
#0016, Columbus Day Media: Sheet metal and oil Provenance: October 12, 1492. Columbus arrives in America —
Christy is a native North Dakotan, born to two artists on the
marked as an official holiday every year.
Sanger Art Farm, located at the northern edge of the Sheyenne
Description: Despite his mass genocide, enslavement, and
River Valley. She received her bachelor's degree from Valley City
general mis-treatment of the Natives, we celebrate this man every
State university, and her MFA from the university of North
year in October.
Dakota. Jessica has shown her work extensively both regionally
Notes: Text of Norman Soloman’s article for Media,
30 and nationally, winning numerous awards.
October 1995