- China Basin District (Entering Zig's Indian Reservation)
Sheet: 18 1/8 × 22 1/16 in. (46 × 56 cm)
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Zig Jackson uses his art as a platform to counter depictions of Native Americans that relegate them to the past, raising awareness about their lives in the present. In his series Entering Zig’s Indian Reservation, Jackson donned the iconic feathered war bonnet and photographed himself beside a custom fabricated road sign at different sites throughout San Francisco. Here, Jackson stands in a small patch of grass in the China Basin neighborhood while the highway and expansive urban skyline fill the background. Jackson’s sharply attuned satire addresses issues of identity and displacement and raises questions about what is means to occupy and demarcate land.
Provenance[Andrew Smith Gallery, Tucson, Arizona]; purchased by MFAH, 2022.
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