Gallery 1832 Presents: Encoded Landscapes

Gallery 1832 presents Encoded Landscapes, an evening celebrating Native American art through conversation, storytelling, and performance. Bringing together artists, community, and audience, the program explores how Indigenous creativity across visual art, design, and performance continues to speak to history, land, and living cultural memory. Through an artist talk, fireside conversation, and a special performance, the evening invites reflection on the ways Indigenous artists reclaim narrative, sustain cultural knowledge, and connect past and present.

At the center of the program is a conversation between artists Jeremy Dennis, Sebastian Ellington Flying Eagle Ebarb, and Patricia “Chali’Inaru” Dones whose practices engage heritage, identity, and contemporary expression. Dennis will discuss his photographic work and the ongoing project of reclaiming Indigenous presence through image-making and archival research. Joining him in a fireside chat, Ebarb, a designer and member of the Choctaw-Apache Tribe of Ebarb, will reflect on how design and visual culture can challenge conventional thinking while reviving and honoring Native heritage. Based in Boston, Ebarb’s work bridges digital and print design with a commitment to holding, reviving, and revering Indigenous knowledge and identity.

The evening will also feature a special performance by Patricia “Chali’Inaru” Dones, a member of the United Confederation of Taíno People. Through embodied storytelling and sound, Dones brings forward ancestral memory and cultural resilience. As she notes, “Educating and re-educating to change the narrative is the only way to persevere in this initiative of awareness.” Her performance grounds the program in lived experience and collective remembrance, creating a moment where voice, movement, and history converge.

The program coincides with Jeremy Dennis: Encoded Landscapes, currently on view at Gallery 1832. The exhibition features selections from The Shinnecock Project, including Nothing Happens Here, Stories, The Sacredness of the Hills, The Lazy, and Rise. Through staged photography informed by historical research, oral histories, and personal narrative, Dennis reclaims Indigenous presence on Long Island while confronting settler-colonial myths and honoring the enduring spirit of the Shinnecock people.

Together, the exhibition and reception frame land as witness, body as archive, and art as an act of sovereignty, resistance, and communal care. Encoded Landscapes invites audiences to engage with Native American art as a living, evolving expression that carries forward community, history, and the enduring power of Indigenous storytelling.

Jeremy Dennis is a contemporary fine art photographer, an enrolled Tribal Member of the Shinnecock Indian Nation in Southampton, NY, and the founder and lead artist of Ma’s House & BIPOC Art Studio, Inc., a nonprofit art space and residency program on the Shinnecock Reservation dedicated to uplifting Indigenous and BIPOC artists.

His work centers Indigenous identity, culture, and the legacies of colonial assimilation, using photography to stage cinematic, otherworldly narratives rooted in Native oral stories, history, and contemporary experience.

Dennis is a Stony Brook University alumnus (BA ’13) and Forty Under 40 honoree (2017), and earned his MFA from Pennsylvania State University (2016). His photographs have been exhibited nationally and internationally, with solo and group exhibitions at The Armory Show, Expo Chicago, ZONAMACO FOTO in Mexico City, and the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Notable exhibitions include Speaking With Light at the Denver Art Museum, and In Our Hands: Native Photography, 1890 to Now at the Minneapolis Institute of Art.

Among his numerous honors are a 2025 NYSCA Grant, Pollock-Krasner Foundation Residency Fellowship, Andy Warhol Visual Arts Residency (2023), Getty Creative Bursary Award, and Running Strong for American Indian Youth Dreamstarter Grants (2016, 2020). Most recently, he was awarded the Artist to Artist Fellowship from the Art Matters Foundation.

Chali’Inaru Dones is a proud Taíno woman from Borikén whose work centers on Indigenous advocacy, cultural preservation, and education. She is deeply committed to uplifting the voices and legacy of the Taíno people, raising awareness of their enduring presence and rich history. Through her dance, she honors her ancestors, using movement as a powerful expression of spirituality, storytelling, and connection to the land. As an educator and advocate, Chali’naru shares knowledge of Taíno traditions and values, ensuring that the culture continues to thrive for future generations.

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