Henry Berry Lowrie

Artist Steven Paul Judd Kiowa/Choctaw

Date2024

MediumDice, adhesive, plywood and metal frame

Dimensionsheight, width, and depth: 85 × 54 1/4 × 2 7/8 in. (215.9 × 137.8 × 7.3 cm)

ClassificationsMixed Media

Credit LineCommissioned by the North Carolina Museum of Art

Object number2024.14.1

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Label TextNative pop art and unsuspecting media drive Judd’s art. He enjoys delivering a “wow” to viewers. In this work he uses over 20,000 dice to create a portrait of the infamous Lumbee revolutionary Henry Berry Lowrie, who was often referred to as an outlaw.

Judd carefully used the number of dots on the sides of the dice to create a visual illusion of positive and negative space. The result is a black-and-white-toned portrait. His largescale dice installations are designed to emphasize the importance of the figures in the portraits. Judd challenges monumental European paintings with the novelty of dice and images of Native peoples yet still privileges the tradition of immortalizing historical figures in large-scale portraiture.
[2024]ProvenanceCreated by the artist, 2024; commissioned by the NCMA, 2024.Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "To Take Shape and Meaning: Form and Design in Contemporary American Indian Art." March 2–July 28, 2024. Object Rights Statement

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