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Jeffrey Gibson
Weight of the World
Jeffrey Gibson (b. 1972, Colorado Springs, Colorado; lives in Germantown, New York)
Weight of the World is a cast bronze sculpture composed of images from the artist’s collection of tchotchkes and decorative objects: representations of Native people created by non-Native and Native people. The work references a marble sculpture called Indian Vase, carved in 1876 by American artist Ames Van Wart that depicts two warriors and a buffalo hunt, currently on view in the American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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