Joe Feddersen
Past/Present

May 1- 31, 2025

Artist reception and book signing, 
Saturday May, 24 from 3:00 - 4:30 pm
This May, studio e is eager to share work from venerated artist Joe Feddersen. Inspired by a travelling retrospective of Feddersen’s work and the recently published book Earth, Water, Sky edited by heather ahtone and Rachel Allen, studio e will host a reception and book signing. For this exhibition Feddersen completed monoprints in which he reworked a series of 1993 Rainscapes. Please join us to recognize and appreciate Feddersen for Past/Present.

Press:
 
“ For decades, Feddersen, age 71, has created prints, paintings, weavings, glass sculptures, ceramics, photography and digital imagery, most of which feature abstracted reflections of Feddersen’s lived experience of the land. Pulling inspiration from the Plateau pictorial style, itself inspired by ancient petroglyphs, Feddersen imbues his work with stylized icons, vivid colors and bold lines. His work feels deeply rooted in traditional approaches while simultaneously reflecting contemporary life and landscape.” 

read the full article in The Seattle Times ︎  


Sophie 13, 2007, Monoprint / unique print, reduction linocut, 11 x 14 in. (FED313)



Joe Feddersen (b. 1953; Arrow Lakes/Okanagan, Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation) is an American artist whose work is informed by his relationship to place, specifically the Plateau region between the Cascade Range and Rocky Mountains. Much of Feddersen’s work is influenced by traditional Plateau-style basketry, which reflects northwestern landscapes, flora, and fauna. He also draws from the cultural landscape of his home: current events, regional histories, tribal legacies, personal narratives, and contemporary dialogues. Spanning printmaking, weaving, glass, and ceramics, Feddersen’s work both celebrates his culture and speaks to a Plateau-Native viewpoint of the contemporary world. Accompanying the first major retrospective exhibition of the artist’s work, Joe Feddersen: Earth, Water, Sky showcases Feddersen’s art and examines his four-decade career as an Indigenous artist working in the Pacific Northwest. Essays by the editors explore an Indigenous perspective on landscape and how Plateau-Native cosmological viewpoints manifest in Feddersen’s work. A selection of poetry by authors from the artist’s past collaborations as well as a biography highlighting interviews from Feddersen’s friends, family, and students are also included.