I Just Get Pieces of You
Jordan Ann Craig, Northern Cheyenne / American, born 1992
2023
Acrylic on canvas
Overall: 70 1/4 × 65 1/8 × 2 1/2 in. (178.4 × 165.4 × 6.3 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased with Gifts from Kristy L. Harteveldt P'19 P'26 and Robert L. Harteveldt '84 P'19 P'26, Rona Hollander Citrin P'11 P'16 and Jeffrey B. Citrin '80 P'16, and Georgina T. Russo '77 P'08 and Thomas A. Russo '77 P'08
2024.4
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
21st century
Object Name
Painting
Research Area
Painting
On view
Label
Much of my work is about researching and learning about my culture and reconnecting. So it’s like my coming back . . . to where we’re from. I think maybe this is why my work is very digitized and symmetrical and perfect, because it’s my way of removing myself from the original crafts. It’s like my way of respecting the original artists. -- Jordan Ann Craig
Here, Craig mines the rich aesthetic traditions of Northern Cheyenne beadwork, quillwork, and hide painting, which have always relied on the abstraction of natural forms. As a studio art major at Dartmouth, she also learned about and embraced geometric abstraction as practiced by artists such as Agnes Martin, whose work is also on view in this gallery. As she indicates above, Craig plans each of her paintings with a digital sketch that she then executes on the canvas.
From the 2025 exhibition Always Already: Abstraction in the United States, curated by John Stomberg, Virginia Rice Kelsey 1961 Director; Jami Powell, Associate Director of Curatorial Affairs and Curator of Indigenous Art; and Amelia Kahl, Barbara C. and Harvey P. Hood 1918 Senior Curator of Academic Programing
Course History
Studio Art 25.01, Painting I, Jen Caine, Fall 2023
Studio Art 25.01, Painting I, Jen Caine, Spring 2024
Art History 40.02, The American Century, Mary Coffey, Spring 2025
Art History 40.02, The American Century, Mary Coffey, Spring 2025
Studio Art 25.01, Painting I, Jenn Caine, Spring 2025
Exhibition History
Always Already: Abstraction in the United States, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 26,2025.
Provenance
The artist, Pojoaque Valley, New Mexico; to Hales Gallery, New York, New York; sold to the present collection, 2024.
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