Jordan Ann Craig

Can't Cry Anymore You Laugh

Jordan Ann Craig is a Northern Cheyenne painter known for her intricate melding of community-derived pattern designs and modernist abstraction. While works like Can’t Cry Anymore You Laugh are informed by the geometric patterns that are characteristic of Cheyenne beadwork and parfleche (painted rawhide bags), the overall symmetry of the composition and the pared down color palette recall the process-based abstractions of post-war American modernists, such as Ad Reinhardt and Agnes Martin. Through deliberately touching upon both artistic tendencies, Craig highlights the arbitrary nature of traditional/contemporary and Native/Western binaries.