Tyrell Tapaha’s Transgressive Navajo Weaving

Tyrell Tapaha lives in the Four Corners region of the American Southwest, raising sheep for wool to dye, spin, and weave. But he likes to play with what is signified by notions of the typical Navajo weaver. His work stood out in “Young Elder,” a group show last year at James Fuentes gallery in New York, for its woven textual provocations bearing messages like fuck and kkkolonization. And when I spoke to the Diné artist in March, he was preparing a pointedly atypical figurative