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Image caption: Courtesy of Project Backboard

Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds, Neufs for Hawaii

August 23, 2022 to August 22, 2023
Murray Playground, Queens

Please note: This is a past exhibit that is no longer installed in the park.

Description:

Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds is an artist and an advocate for indigenous communities worldwide. He works in multidisciplinary forms of art. His expressions focus on indigenous social justice, and on the personal freedom to live within the tribal circle as an expressive individual.

“Neuf” is a Cheyenne word that means doing something four times as in a ceremony in the four directions. The paintings acknowledge the Cheyenne nation and celebrate it by applying varying colors to evoke the landscape, fish swimming, or bodies moving across the canvas from left to right. These paintings were created on Oahu.

This exhibition is presented by Project Backboard.