Oklahoma City-based artist Brent Learned, an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma, is known for his colorful, impressionistic portrayals of the Plains Indian way of life. He mostly paints, in vibrant hues that belie the sometimes dark material he’s depicting. As of late, the artist has experimented more with his work, putting the same Plains Indian subjects into pop art settings, using satire. “It’s not your grandparents’ Indian artwork,” he says. “When people think of Native American art, they think of a guy on a horse, or hunting a buffalo.""I create artwork to capture the essence and emotion of the Native American Indian in a contemporary vision".~ Brent Learned *