Jeffrey Gibson (Mississippi Band Choctaw/Cherokee), BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY, 2021, canvas, acrylic, glass beads, artificial sinew, nylon thread, vintage beaded belt buckle, vintage beaded whimsey and vintage beaded bag. Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Edward and Bertha Rose Acquisition Fund and Mortimer and Sara Hays Acquisition Fund, 2022.8. Courtesy Jeffrey Gibson and Kavi Gupta, Chicago.
A recent acquisition of four significant works has come to the permanent collection of the Rose Art Museum in Waltham, Massachusetts. Two Native American artists are represented in the acquisition, including Seneca artist Marie Watt and Jeffrey Gibson, a multi-faceted Mississippi Band Choctaw/Cherokee artist.
BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY, by Gibson, is a vibrantly patterned mixed media piece, consisting of canvas, acrylic paint, glass beads, artificial sinew, nylon thread, a vintage beaded belt buckle, vintage beaded whimsey and a vintage beaded bag. The piece—which looks like a bright, futuristic quilt—calls to Gibson’s Indigenous heritage and queer identity as well as the aesthetics and biases associated with those identity markers.
“We are thrilled to welcome the exceptional work of Jeffrey Gibson, Barkley L. Hendricks, Peter Sacks and Marie Watts into the Rose collection,” says Gannit Ankori, Rose Art Museum’s Henry and Lois Foster Director and chief curator. “We are always looking for work that helps fill in the lacunae, making our collection more reflective of and responsive to our complex world. These pieces offer new perspectives, ideas, experiences and voices, deepening our already stellar permanent collection.”
The newly acquired works are currently on view in the museum’s 60th anniversary collection show, re: collections, Six Decades at the Rose Art Museum, on view through June 16, 2024.
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