Onto the Red Road
2006
Series of 5 inkjet prints
Dimensions: 72 x 60 inches
“Again red dominates Onto the Red Road, a series of images that shows a woman progres- sively changing through variations in westernized and Lakota clothing. For the Lakota, ‘ walking on the red road’ means being on a spiritual path. The woman starts off in a short sundance skirt and hot red stiletto-heeled boots up to her thighs; she ends up wearing a much longer red sundance skirt that chastely covers her legs but exposes her bare feet. In the final image, the woman is raising her hands over her head, her palms facing forward. In five steps, Claxton has made the woman transform from a sexual figure into a spiritual one. “
— By Kevin Griffin for the Vancouver Sun
Onto the Red Road, installed at Dana Claxton: Fringing the Cube, Vancouver Art Gallery, 2018. Photography by Maegan Hill-Carroll, Vancouver Art Gallery.
Onto the Red Road, installed at Dana Claxton: Fringing the Cube, Vancouver Art Gallery, 2018. Photography by Maegan Hill-Carroll, Vancouver Art Gallery.
Onto the Red Road, installation image from the exhibition Diversity and Dialogue: The Eiteljorg Fellowship for Native American Fine Art 2007, Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art. Courtesy of the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art.
