2nd Saturday Art Walk: Verge Center for the Arts

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Kicking off our exhibition program in 2025, Verge is proud to present DECOLONIZATION, a solo show of work by visionary artist Spencer Keeton Cunningham. Cunningham is an enrolled member of the Colville Tribe from the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation in Northeastern Washington. In his new work, Cunningham explores themes both autobiographical and societal in form from Decolonization and cultural archetypes to reservation life and alternate American Indian histories. In the past 22 years of his professional art career Cunningham continues to develop a unique visual language laced with humor, satire, and a tenacity to paint a vivid portrait of an ongoing colonization of North America. His work has earned him a place in the contemporary art world where he resides like a lone wolf.

With the scale of his current body of work, Cunningham’s paintings reach a mountainous 20ft tall, dwarfing the viewer with gargantuan works of art. Cunningham’s long-spanning career has led him to work with cult icons such as Buck 65 and his paintings are in the permanent collection of the SFMoMA, BAMPFA, the Crocker Art Museum, and others. He has exhibited extensively throughout the US and abroad, including museums in China, Los Angeles, New York, Japan, Europe, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. In addition, Cunningham has worked locally in Sacramento on various public art projects and continues to create work in the form of large scale sculpture, paintings, books, records, films and public art in the San Francisco Bay Area where he has resided for the past 20 years, and beyond.

ON VIEW: January 11-March 23, 2025
OPENING RECEPTION: Saturday, January 11, 2025 | 5-8 PM

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