Gabby Severson

2013 Simmons Family Reunion, 2025

2.6mm Fuse beads, artificial sinew

11" x 46" x 0.5"

Severson is a Siletz artist of mixed Indigenous and white identity. She photographs scenes of her Siletz identity, pixelates them using mapping software, then recreates the resulting grids by hand in plastic fuse beads. She asks how Indigenous identity can exist beyond fixed expectations, and how cultural knowledge shifts as it travels through generations. gabbyseverson.com