Dana Claxton, Rick and the Mohawks, 2025 (detail)
Dana Claxton
Rick and the Mohawks
Rick with the Mohawks, Rick for the Mohawks,
Rick and the Keepers of the Eastern Door,
Rick and the Mohawk People, Rick and the Kanien’kehá:ka,
Rick and the People of the Flint,
Resis tahnon Kanien’keha:ka
At Macaulay + Co.
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 3, 2-5pm
May 3 – June 28, 2025
Macaulay + Co. is thrilled to present a new body of work by Vancouver based artist Dana Claxton. On view are photo based works, and ephemera based on a gift from Vancouver’s Rick Erickson. Rick has long been a central and valued member of the arts and cultural community in Vancouver, and during a trip to Montreal, himself and friends went to the Peace Camp in Kanesatake that was established during “Oka Crisis”. Also known as The Kanesatake Resistance, or the Mohawk Resistance, there was a a 78-day standoff (11 July–26 September 1990) between the Kanyen’kehà:ka (Mohawk), Quebec police, the RCMP and the Canadian Army, as a result of a crisis that was sparked by the proposed expansion of a golf course by the town of Oka on disputed Kanesatake land that included a Kanyen’kehà:ka burial ground.
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