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Artist:
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Jamie Okuma
Shoes designed by Christian Louboutin
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Title:
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Adaptation II
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Date:
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2012
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Medium:
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Leather, glass beads, porcupine quills, sterling silver cones, brass sequins, chicken feathers, cloth, deer rawhide, buckskin
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Dimensions:
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8 5/8 x 9 3/16 x 3 1/4 in. (21.91 x 23.34 x 8.26 cm) (object part, each)
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Credit Line:
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Bequest of Virginia Doneghy, by exchange
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Location:
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Gallery 261
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Award winning artist Jamie Okuma has applied a Native American aesthetic to a pair of Christian Louboutin stilettos. Meticulously beaded and quilled, they are a contemporary version of highly decorated moccasins. Okuma researches historic artwork but updates the aesthetic to appeal to contemporary Native tastes and concerns.
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Artist/Creator(s)
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Name:
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Okuma, Jamie
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Culture:
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Luiseño/Shoshone-Bannock
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Nationality:
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American
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Life Dates:
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American
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Name:
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Louboutin, Christian
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Role:
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Designer
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Nationality:
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French
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Life Dates:
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French, born 1963
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Object Description
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Inscriptions:
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Classification:
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Sculpture
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Physical Description:
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high-heeled platform Mary Jane-style shoes embellished with beading overall; predominately light blue beads with geometric designs; gold, medium blue and dark blue triangles on heels; kiltie extending below strap made of vertical bands of porcupine quills with a black and white checkerboard design at center edged in yellow and red; ten tassels of red feathers and tin cones on kilties; soles of shoes are red; shoes are Lady Daf 160 mm Tartan, designed by Christian Louboutin
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Creation Place:
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North America, United States, California region, ,
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Accession #:
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2012.68.1a,b
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Owner:
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The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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