Frohawk Two Feathers:

We Buy Gold, We Buy Everything, We Sell Souls

Frohawk Two Feathers: We Buy Gold, We Buy Everything, We Sell Souls featured more than 20 paintings, works on paper and sculpture. Over the course of his career, Frohawk Two Feathers, a pseudonym for L.A.-based artist Umar Rashid has created works that provide a magnificent re-imagining of history, narrating the story of Frengland, his fictionalized empire of a combined France and England. His drawings are detailed accounts of the traditions and rituals associated with the Frenglish leaders and culture, confronting issues of racism, power, greed, and ideological opposition within an invented period during the eighteenth century. By re-imagining colonial history, his work shows the subjective nature of historical recollection. This exhibition opened on key characters and battles from the initial formation and early expansion of Frengland, as well as subsequent imperial conquests and campaigns against the crown. Rooted in this early history, the artist produced new works for this exhibition that further develop the complex narrative of the Frenglish Empire, expanding the scope of his earlier work to North America and linking the narrative of Frengland to Colorado. 

Frohawk Two Feathers was born in 1976 in Chicago. This was the artist's first solo museum exhibition. He received his BA at Southern Illinois University At Carbondale in 2000. He lives and works in Los Angeles.