Terrance Houle: Road Warrior Redux
Terrance Houle Urban Indian Series no. 2 2004 / photo Jarusha Brown
In our Fall 2011 magazine feature “Road Warrior,” critic Murray Whyte unpacks the personal history and pointed humour behind the work of Calgary-based First Nations artist Terrance Houle. As Whyte writes: “At once fearless, charismatic, tender and intimate—and, we mustn’t forget, uproariously funny—Houle’s work centres not on the desecrated, unspecific victimized Other, but on the artist’s flabby, beer-drinking, pizza-eating single-dad Self.” Framed by long-standing issues of colonial wrongs and Indian stereotypes, it’s a practice that uses equal doses of disarming wit and self-deprecating honesty to fashion a sly, hard-hitting portrayal of contemporary First Nations identity. Here, a survey of 10 images offers a further look at Houle’s work, including his newest project at the Residencia en la Tierra in Montenegro, Colombia, in June 2011.
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