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Frank Buffalo Hyde Frank Buffalo Hyde grew up surrounded by traditional Native American art. He had artists on both sides of his family and his parents met at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA). From an early age, however, Hyde knew he wanted to make his own mark. When he did eventually decide to embrace the visual art world — after playing in a rock band and trying his hand at writing — it was with the overt intention of making his audience think twice about the way they see Native Americans. Hyde called his first show at the Museum of Contemporary Native Art “Ladies and Gentlemen, This Is the Buffalo Show” and filled it not only with his namesake animals, but with buffalo soldiers, the character Buffalo Bill from The Silence of the Lambs, and an image of buffalo wings. Hyde’s satirical, pop-culture-soaked, take-no-prisoners approach puts him in a unique place among Native artists. “When working on a piece, I tap into the universal mind,” says Hyde. “The collective unconsciousness of the 21st century. Drawing images from advertisement, movies, television, music and politics. Expressing observation, as well as knowledge through experience. Overlapping imagery to mimic the way the mind holds information: non linear and without separation. I don’t need permission to make what I make. Never have...no artist should.” - Frank Buffalo Hyde Studio Central - Red Wing, MN frankbuffalohyde.com |
