Description
"Comanche Horses” is a mixed media creation using hand-cut wood veneers, mulberry paper, acrylic plastic, and a hand-crafted frame made from five types of hardwood: western red cedar, rosewood, canary wood, alder, and padauk. It features a hand-cut mesa and sky motif on the outside of the frame. There are six layers to this dimensional diorama-style creation. The piece was created after reading Empire of the Summer Moon by S. C. Gwynne, who describes how 1200 Comanche horses were murdered by the US Cavalry at Palo Duro Canyon in 1874.
Materials
Wood, paper acrylic medium & acrylic.
Dimensions
2.25" x 36" x 24"
Category
Drawing, Graphics and Mixed Media
Gregg Standridge
Choctaw Nation, Cherokee Nation
About the Artist
Gregg Standridge is an award-winning Choctaw artist and an Andy Warhol grant recipient in Wood Marquetry Arts. His pieces are hand-drawn creations and hand-cut from thin, brightly dyed domestic and exotic wood veneer. Wood Inlay designs include Choctaw legends: Stickball Player, Deer Woman, Corn Woman, Fan Dancer, and spirit animals: horses, turtles, buffalo, cardinals, hummingbirds, road runners, rabbits, butterflies, and lizards. A scroll saw and X-Acto knife are used - no laser cutting! Art pieces are intricately arranged like puzzles, glued, hand-framed, sanded, and varnished. Bright Veneer wood colors rotate on each unique variation. Originals and limited sets are signed, numbered, and stamped for authenticity.
Art shows in California, Oklahoma, and Kansas, include the Cherokee Art Market, Trail of Tears Art Show, Red Earth Festival, Agua Caliente Cultural Museum Gift Shop, Choctaw Cultural Center and Casino, Exhibit C Gallery, MAINSITE Contemporary Arts, Paseo One Gallery, Oklahoma City Arts Festival, Downtown Edmond Arts Festival, and Smoky Hill River Festival. Limited signed/numbered prints on archival 100% cotton paper are also available.
Gregg has worked in this art form for five years. In Norman, the “Buffalo Sunrise” mural is a permanent fixture at Midway Deli. Pieces are also in Norman at Yellow Dog Coffee, Firehouse Art Center, in Oklahoma City at Paseo Gallery One, and Exhibit C Gallery. The 1/42” wood veneers include ash, birch, karelian birch, birdseye maple, bocote, bubinga, elm burl, laurel burl, cerejeira, ttimoe, eucalyptus, imbuya, dyed koto, lacewood, madrone, nutmeg, oak, paldra, peroration rosa, rio picto, sapale, spruce, sycamore, walnut, and zircote.
Gregg states, “My vision of wood inlay art comes alive, sings, and dances!”
