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It took time for the now legendary 20th-century artist to find his visual voice. A new exhibition at the Cape Ann Museum transports visitors back to a pivotal summer 100 years ago when Hopper met the woman who would become his model, muse, manager and wife: Josephine Nivison.
In a conversation between Smith and Whitney director Adam Weinberg, the pair describe a tenet of Smith’s art as the act of “changing nouns to verbs.” In other words, Smith’s art aims to shift the role of Indigenous people as subjects that are mapped, or are the target of imperialist abstractions like defined frontiers, to that of mapmakers themselves. Smith’s mixed-media War-Torn Dress (2002) most overtly highlights the distinctions between the mapped and the mapmakers.
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