Reception photographer: Carole Volpe
On view in the Fosdick-Nelson Gallery October 24 – December 7, 2025
Luanne Redeye: Resonances marked the first public presentation of a new direction developed within Redeye’s practice. Across paintings, collages, photographs, clay works, textiles, and an artist book, Redeye works in series and accumulation, allowing meaning to emerge through repetition, proximity, and material difference rather than singular images or statements.
A citizen of the Seneca Nation and Hawk Clan, Redeye grew up on the Allegany Indian Reservation in Western New York. The exhibition draws from personal and familial archives alongside materials and histories connected to the Seneca Nation. Cyanotypes toned with plant-based pigments, stitched and beaded surfaces, photo transfers, and clay gathered from Cattaraugus County register acts of handling, return, and care. These materials hold time through use, labor, and recurrence.
Many of the works were developed through Redeye’s Platform Residency at Alfred University in summer 2025, which supported extended experimentation across media and scale. The residency allowed Redeye to work across multiple formats at once, emphasizing process and seriality.
In place of a conventional introductory wall text, the exhibition opened with a poem written by Redeye. The poem set the terms for engagement, framing the gallery as a space for attention and embodied encounter. Throughout the exhibition, memory remains active and carried forward through making.
Biography
Luanne Redeye is a portrait and figurative artist questioning modes of representation through visual storytelling and personal archive. Her artwork draws connections to the land and kinship of her home community, holding the memories, stories, and imprints of her familial relationships. A citizen of the Seneca Nation and Hawk Clan, Luanne grew up on the Allegany Indian Reservation in Western New York.
Redeye received her MFA in Painting and Drawing at the University of New Mexico. She has been supported through residencies, exhibitions, and grants by various institutions, including Kent State University (OH), the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (NM), Santa Fe Art Institute (NM), Wassaic Project (NY), New American Paintings, and the New York State Council on the Arts, among others.
Redeye is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art Practice at the University of California, Berkeley.
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INSTALLATION PHOTOS
Installation photographer: Fynn Wood