The eye of history: The Nevada Museum of Art opens its expansion with a show by Judith Lowry that probes the seams of Native sovereignty and assimilation

The eye of history: The Nevada Museum of Art opens its expansion with a show by Judith Lowry that probes the seams of Native sovereignty and assimilation

The show that the Nevada Museum of Art is presenting to open the first phase of its expansion—The Art of Judith Lowry—is a big show, in a number of ways.  It’s big in terms of scope, covering more than 30 years of work by Lowry, a painter whose father was of Mountain Maidu, Hammawi Band Pit River, Washo and Scots-Irish descent, and whose mother was an immigrant from Australia. It’s big in terms of context. Lowry’s work probes the seams of Native…