Requiem Dream, acrylic, 2003, 11" x 14"
Duane Slick (Meskwaki (Sauk and Fox Tribe)) MFA Painting, University of California, Davis, 1990. Collections: Spencer Museum of Art (University of Kansas, Lawrence), Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art (Great Falls, MT), Montclair Art Museum (Montclair, NJ), University of New Mexico Museum of Art (Albuquerque), Institute of American Indian Arts Museum (Santa Fe, NM). Exhibited nationwide, recipient of numerous awards. Currently teaches painting and printmaking at Rhode Island School of Design.
In Requiem Dream, the figure is an indistinguishable mass draped in the American flag. Slick created the shape by draping a figure of an Indian woman with cloth and then removing her extremities, resulting in a phallus-shaped object. The outline of flowers reinforces the painting's funereal mood.