Critical Writing Index

Testing Testickle: Monkman's Alter Ego Always Provokes

by Leah Sandals

NOW, Nov. 22, 2007, v. 27, no. 12, p. 105

Leah Sandals reviews Kent Monkman's installation of work at the MOCCA gallery. Monkman's work focuses on native canadian and queer identity issues using the pseudonym "Miss Chief Eagle Testickle." Exhibition includes several realist paintings, sculptures and installations depicting historical stereotyped notions of the "noble First Nations male," intersecting with playful allusions to modern queer culture.

ITEM 2007.080 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

The Group of Seven InchesKent Monkman

Shooting GeronimoKent Monkman

Boudoir De BerdacheKent Monkman