Roger Perkins

About the Process

In addition to the paintings, I am introducing an art movement I've started called " Powowpopart ". Using my paintings, original images, photo's and borrowed/ reclaimed images from the internet, other media sources, I digitally compose these images together in photoshop. These digital originals, I call Powowpopart, become their own artistic statements both educational and entertaining. It is a playful, yet sharp visual conversation. What emerges is an empowered assertion of Indian identity which both embraces/rejects any attempt to define what it is to be a dispossessed people. It is printed on canvas using archival pigments and hand stretched and embellished. Painted wooden Eagle Feathers: I began making small and large carved and painted Eagle feathers from reclaimed wood slabs and saved logs from getting turned into mulch. From 2 feet tall to 9 feet tall. The Eagle feather is a sacred object for Native Peoples. I'm carving slabs of wood into the form of an eagle feather and painting sacred imagery and cultural designs onto the carved and sanded feather forms. Using vibrant acrylic colors both bold and subtle depending on what the wood feather calls for. Each feather is unique, original and hand made, I then apply UV varnish to the finished piece. When you receive it, the Feather has a "Living" Vibe and ready to hang. In 1993, I began to revive a lost, 4000 year old ceramic art form in the ancestral homeland of Mohawk people, which ended in the 1660's. I studied traditional Mohawk pottery forms, shards and designs dating as far back as 1900 BC in Mohawk Valley .I've shared and taught the traditional form of Mohawk pottery in workshops for more than 10 years to adults, artists and students, native and non-native. I have become a master of Mohawk Pottery