Sky Hopinka Reframes the American Landscape at the Barnes Foundation

ARTnews profiles Native American artist Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians) in connection with his site-specific installation “Red Metal Dust” at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia. The work consists of 11 panels combining landscape photographs made over the last year and a half with copper sheets, using the metal’s cultural significance and its changing surface to prompt reflection on time and human presence. Hopinka said the title references the Ho-Chunk word for copper, “mąąsšuc,” meaning “red metal,” and connects “dust” to stories about people coming from dust. The installation is on view through January (year not specified in the article) and includes images ranging from views shot from an Amtrak train window to aerial photographs taken while flying over the United States.

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