Unctuous, Sean Nattras

April 5 – June 9, 2012

Legacy Art Gallery Downtown

Curated by Dr Carolyn Butler Palmer, Williams Legacy Chair in Modern and Contemporary Arts of the Pacific Northwest.

This exhibition examines historian Benedict Anderson’s concept of imagined communities in relationship to the emergence of First Nations printmaking practices in the late twentieth century. Ideas of community and nation have a complicated set of relationships. For some, communities are nations. For historian Benedict Anderson, nations are synthetic constructions that we come to imagine as communities through various systems of exchange that include: public meeting places and the reproduction of images and narratives. On Communities and Nations examines Anderson’s concept of imagined communities in relationship to emergence of First Nations printmaking practices in the late twentieth century.