POWOWOWPOPART
My Mohawk name is Sosakete, Roger Perkins is my English name. I’m from Akwesasne, which is an American Indian territory that runs along the Saint Lawrence River and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec.
I am introducing an art movement I've started that I call Powowpopart. Using my paintings, original images, photos and borrowed/reclaimed images, I digitally compose them together to become their own artistic statements, both educational and entertaining. It is a playful, yet sharp visual conversation. What emerges is an empowered assertion of Indian identity which both embraces and rejects any attempt to define what it is to be a dispossessed people. They are printed on canvas using archival pigments and hand stretched and embellished.
See all of his work in the Fine Art gallery
