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The Armoury Show with Patel Brown
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Toronto-based Patel Brown brought an interesting artistic production of the Native Art Department International, a collaborative project by artists Maria Hupfield and Jason Lujan. First launched in Brooklyn in 2016 and now based in Toronto/Tkaronto, its multidisciplinary practice challenges easy categorizations of indigeneity and Indigenous art through camaraderie, decolonial politics and identity-based artwork. At the Armory Show, they’re presenting a series of colorful paintings and wall carpets from their Woodland Boogie Woogie series, which mocks the famous Mondrian painting while exploring the connections between the Western legacy of abstraction and the Woodland style, or Legend painting, founded by the Anishinaabe artists Norval Morrisseau, Daphne Odjig and Carl Ray, among others.
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