MARCUS AMERMAN
Choctaw

"I believe there is another world beyond this one. We tend to imagine an impregnable wall separating these worlds, but I think of my role as an artist as being a clouded window in that wall. I seek to be the open door." Marcus Amerman

Marcus Amerman is a multi-faceted artist, unfetterd by the limitations of any one medium, mindset or cultural expectation. Performance art, fashion design, film, sculpture, beadwork, painting and conceptual installation are just some of the choices in his repertoire. Marcus frequently repatriates misappropriated Indian imagery and identity by any conceivable means. He may bead colour into historical pictures of famous or nameless people, collage two dimensional cartoons onto vibrant canvases or re-stage old Edward Curtis photographs with friends, acquaintances and modern day articles. The following pages barely skim his extraordinary output!

"Sometimes when I mention that I am an artist to a stranger, they'll often ask 'What do you make?' I tell them 'I make excitement'" Marcus Amerman

beadwork portrait
'The Man with No Name'
by Marcus Amerman, beadwork

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