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Kempton Dexter - Yellow Cedar Songs
November 16, 1993

“The pieces are united by the single cedar tree from which they were cut and each one is influenced largely by the individual cut of wood. It is as if they form a song cycle, related indirectly to a whole but each very much individual in its thematic and aesthetic concerns.”

Alteen, Glenn - from Yellow Cedar Songs Publication

“One senses issues of identity within the works. Traditional senses of male and female are at work and certain pieces seem poised between the two.” Ibid. “These works differ from the older work in one essential detail. They are about him, where he comes from, where he is now. The traditional role of the artist as creator, watching the world and bringing us back pieces of information has been broken. He is the model. And as a work of self-portraiture Dexter is… opening up himself and looking inside.”

Ibid.