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Production still from the Art in the Twenty-First Century Season 1 episode, Spirituality. © Art21, Inc. 2001.
For John Feodorov, spirituality is a thorny issue. The California-born artist is of mixed Native American and Euro-American descent, which provides the source material for his work addressing stereotypes of America, consumerism, and identity.
Feodorov’s work highlights the vastly different values held by Western and Native societies and specifically contrasts the “Disneyfication of nature” that appears across the West with the veneration of the natural world in Native mythologies.
To grapple with these contradictions, Feodorov has created a “hybrid mythology” using kitschy objects, archival imagery, and paintings to visualize the chasm. In an exclusive interview with Art21 featured as part of its flagship