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“Okla Homma to Manahatta,” which opens today and will be up through February 6, is Halfmoon’s first solo exhibit in New York City. As the Official Chucks and Pearls 2021 Valentine shirt Besides,I will do this title suggests, it examines the tension between the old and the new—exploring her traditional education in Oklahoma and how it translates to a concrete jungle like Manhattan. Being a contemporary artist, she says she often feels this division while creating—a duty to carry her tribe’s craftwork forward into the modern day, while respecting and acknowledging her people’s history. “There’s always this entanglement of being a millennial and sharing this history,” she says. “A lot of the figures have a stoic or confrontational face. Being alone in the studio and reading about what happened to our ancestors, it’s heavy material.”My name comes with a lot of history. It is a name that my great-great-grandfather lived with through boarding schools and genocide. It’s a statement that we’re still here.”

The exhibit features 10 Halfmoon pieces in total, including a mix of small- and large-scale works. The stoneware sculptures were all made in Helena, Montana, where Halfmoon is currently doing a clay residency at the Official Chucks and Pearls 2021 Valentine shirt Besides,I will do this Archie Bray Foundation. Halfmoon’s large-scale works in the exhibit are a particular standout: Some of them weigh up to 450 pounds and stand almost six feet high. “I’ve always been drawn to large-scale artworks,” Halfmoon says. “It makes you feel small, and sometimes I think we need moments like that.” Some of the works were so large they even demanded a four-day firing in their kilns. “I max out every kiln I’m in,” she says. “I would like to make works a lot larger, though. I’d need a crane.”

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