Found art of Brian Jungen at the National Museum of American Indian

Carapace, 2009. Industrial waste bins, 11.63' x 26.25' x 21.9'.

Courtesy of the artist, Casey Kaplan, NY, and Frac des Pays de la Loire, France. Photo: Mathieu Génon. ©Brian Jungen.

Brian Jungen is of Dunne-za First Nations and Swiss-Canadian ancestry Jungen was born in the small town of Fort St. John in northeast British Columbia. For the past 20 years, he has resided in Vancouver.

Jungen’s credits his passion for found objects to the Native ingenuity of crafting one object out of another. Jungen grew up watching relatives recycle everything. “It was a kind of salvaging born out of practical and economic necessity, and it greatly influenced how I see the world as an artist,” said Jungen.

Strange Comfort will be on view at the National Museum of the American Indian until August 8, 2010. The NMAI is on the National Mall at Fourth Street & Independence Ave., S.W. in Washington, DC. The museum is open daily form 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.