All these dots are making me dizzy: An Indigenous Perspective on the Australian Western Desert Dot Painting Movement
In conjunction with the exhibition Icons of the Desert: Early Aboriginal Paintings from Papunya
Franchesca Cubillo (Larrakia), Senior Curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, will give an Indigenous perspective on the acrylic painting movement. While it has gained great public visibility and critical success, it is also sometimes characterized in a trivializing way as “dot painting.” She will discuss the movement’s significant impact on, and import for, Indigenous Australians.
Co-sponsored by NYU’s Departments of Anthropology and Art History, Morse Academic Plan, Native Peoples Forum, Fine Arts Society (a student organization), and Grey Art Gallery.