Luis Jimenez: The Decade Show: Frameworks of Identity in the 1980s

Luis Jimenez creates his work by hand, ad considers himself a blue collar artist. In the video we watched on him, he applies layers and layers of clay, shaping each piece as he goes. In this particular piece, it appears that two Native American warriors are being depicted on the back of a bald eagle, with one warrior appearing to be dead. Jimenez, who was known for controversy, is making a comment on the way Native Americans were (and are) treated in this country. I had no idea that he was killed by a piece of his own artwork, when it fell on his leg and severed an artery.