EXHIBITION

Heartbreaking and Shit

Morgan Lehman Gallery , 01/30/2014 - 03/01/2014

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Morgan Lehman Gallery is pleased to present Heartbreaking and Shit, Frohawk Two Feathers’ second solo exhibition with the gallery.

Following the artist's deeply involved narrative, Heartbreaking and Shit presents the "next chapter" in a device of fictionalized history that Two Feathers has become noted for. This latest body of work finds the European colonialists landing in the new world of America and establishing settlements in the Northeast. With settlement comes war, and on this strange new land, the artist's invented European super-power "Frengland" goes to battle against “New Holland," both sides allied with various Native American tribes.

While Two Feathers has established a broad macro-narrative via¬ his intercontinental, empire-building struggles, the artist has also employed a deeply nuanced micro-narrative. Filled with characters that love, lust, greed and connive their way through the artist’s take on 18th century drama and intrigue, his heroes and heroines may exist in the past, but their essences are a blend of colonialism melded with contemporary urban street culture, influenced greatly by Two Feathers’ background as a hip hop artist. This juxtaposition of new and old, colonial and contemporary raises a myriad of questions for the viewer, primarily in how we reconcile the sins of imperialism with the sins of today.
 

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