Escher-ish Horn Spoon Item Number: 2010.61 from the Brooklyn Museum
Label
Native American artists Marcellus and Elizabeth Toya Medina and Kevin Pourier create works inspired by both old and new art forms. The painted designs on the water jar of classic Pueblo shape combine traditional masked Kachinas in static poses with naturalistic, muscled, male Pueblo dancers who seem to burst off the vessel’s surface. The inlaid buffalo-horn spoon, a traditional Plains implement, is given a contemporary twist in Pourier’s homage to M. C. Escher’s hypnotic prints.
Credit Line
Gift of William A. Putnam, by exchange
Item History
- Made by Kevin Pourier during 2009
What
- Name
- Escher-ish Horn Spoon
- Identification Number
- 2010.61
- Type of Item
- horn spoon
- Material
- buffalo horn, mother of pearl shell and resin
- Overall
- length 3.5 in, width 17.0 in
Who
- Creator
- Kevin Pourier
Where
- Holding Institution
- Brooklyn Museum
When
- Creation Date
- during 2009
Other
- Classification
- Sculpture