Spiders are weavers.
The Navajo artist and weaver Melissa Cody knows this palpably.
It also infuses “Melissa Cody: Webbed Skies,” the first major solo exhibition of the artist’s work, which is on view at MoMA PS1 through Sept. 9. in a co-production with the São Paulo Museum of Art in Brazil (known as MASP).
The exhibition is part of the overdue recognition of Indigenous artists by museums and other institutions, from the recent retrospective of Jaune Quick-to-See-Smith’s work at the Whitney Museum of American Art to the expanding roster of artists at the Venice Biennale.
Cody, 41, is a millennial at the forefront of an art form harking back millenniums — at once building on tradition and joyously venturing beyond it.
Persons:
Melissa Cody, Man, Jaune
Organizations:
MoMA, São Paulo Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American, Venice Biennale
Locations:
Brazil, Venice, Cody