The MacArthur Foundation has announced the recipients of the 2023 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, and the 20 fellows named this year have practices in fields that include the sciences and the literary and visual arts. Known colloquially as the MacArthur "genius grant", each fellow receives an $800,000 grant that is doled out over the course of five years. There are no restrictions on how the funds are spent.
Among the 20 recipients this year are four visual artists: María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Raven Chacon, Carolyn Lazard and Dyani White Hawk.
Dyani White Hawk is an interdisciplinary artist whose work draws inspiration both from the artwork of the indigenous Lakota people-of whom she is a descendant-and from the abstract paintings of 20th century European and American art history. "Abstraction is a global practice that has been practiced in communities for longer than I think we understand," she told the foundation. "Distilling complex ideas and thoughts down to the most graceful and poignant gestures-that's a human practice." In addition to visual cues, she also often incorporates materials and techniques of the Lakota people into her work-including her contribution to last year's Whitney Biennial-such as beadwork, porcupine quillwork and parfleche painting.
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