A resident of Minneapolis since 1968, Big Bear was born and raised on Minnesota’s White Earth Reservation. He studied briefly with the legendary Ojibwe painter George Morrison at the University of Minnesota, but is considered to be a self-taught artist, relying on his dreams, intuitions, and on influences from his own study of art history and literature. Big Bear’s art has a powerful energy all its own, but evident in it are the space- and time-fracturing effects of Cubism and Surrealism. Fritz Scholder’s socio-political stances, and George Morrison’s abstracted landscape designs, also influence his drawings. Frank Big Bear’s art has achieved cult status among a younger generation of artists, paying homage to traditional Ojibwe culture, a contemporary search for spiritual meaning, and urban culture as well. Exhibition continues through March 22, 2009