Plateau

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Plateau
Joe Feddersen
Okanogan/Colville
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Joe Feddersen

• Mediums

Printmaking
Basketry
Glass
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Connection to traditions of the Plateau People
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Feddersens ancestors are from the Inland
Plateau Region of the Columbia Basin
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Inspiration for his work comes from patterns
found on cornhusk bags, parfleches and baskets
made by his people
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Joe Feddersen says that the designs of the
cornhusk parfleches have distilled within them an
encyclopedia of information about place
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Colville Indian Reservation
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Originally the designs were derived from the
Plateau region flora and fauna
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Colville Indian Reservation
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Uses the designs of his ancestors as a point of
departure for his personal exploration
Feddersens Basket
Old Basket
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Abstract imagery evokes memory and imagination
for Feddersen
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Interested in modernist aesthetic while
maintaining direct ties to Plateau designs
Modernism began to take hold in art during the
early Twentieth Century. It is defined simply as
art for arts sake. Think about the idea that
arts purpose is to express the uniqueness of
each artist.
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Joe Feddersen says that he is influenced by other
artists such as the work of Richard Diebenkorn
Ocean Park No. 114 1979
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Ocean Park No. 70 1975
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The work of Frank Stella also inspires
Feddersens work
Red River Valley 1973
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Frank Stella
Morro Castle 1958
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Feddersen takes old traditions like basketry and
makes it his own
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Feddersen is interested in jazz and the music of
composer Philip Glass
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In Plateau culture there is not such a word as
art. It is called making. Here we see
Feddersen in the glass studio at Evergreen
College in Washington state where he teaches.
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Let us take a look at the landscape here in East
Central Illinois We can look at it the
traditional way
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Or we can look at it in a new way
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