Brenda Mallory, Mantle (From the Earth)
Brenda Mallory
1955-
Cherokee
Date
2021
Medium Specific
Glazed stoneware
Classification
Ceramic
Dimensions
14 x 26 x 1/2 in. (35.6 x 66 x 1.3 cm.)
Accession Number
2025.20.30.02
Credit
Gift of Emma Barrow
Memo / Artist Statement
Brenda Mallory is a multi-disciplinary artist primarily working in mixed media sculptural works comprised of a variety of materials including cloth, fibers, beeswax, and found objects. By creating multiple forms that are joined with crude hardware that imply tenuous connections or repairs, her work addresses ideas of interference in long-established systems of nature and human cultures.
Biography
Mallory lives in Portland, Oregon but grew up in Oklahoma and is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation. She holds a BA in Linguistics & English from UCLA and a BFA from Pacific Northwest College of Art. She is a recipient of the The Hallie Ford Fellowship, the Eiteljorg Contemporary Native Art Fellowship, the Native Arts and Culture Foundation Fellowship in Visual Art and the Ucross Native Fellowship.
A citizen of the Cherokee Nation who grew up in Oklahoma, lived experience deeply informs her practice, as do the histories of survival inherent to Indigenous peoples.
A citizen of the Cherokee Nation who grew up in Oklahoma, lived experience deeply informs her practice, as do the histories of survival inherent to Indigenous peoples.