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An Indigenous Present
Jeffrey Gibson; Interview of Candice Hopkins, Jaune Quick to See Smith; Text written by Philip J. Deloria, Adam Khalil, …
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Five decades of work by groundbreaking Indigenous artist Jaune
Quick-to-See Smith Throughout her career as artist, activist, and
educator, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (b. 1940) has forged a personal
yet accessible visual language she uses to address environmental
destruction, war, genocide, and the misreading of the past. An
enrolled Salish member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai
Nation, Smith cleverly deploys elements of abstraction,
neo-expressionism, and pop, fusing them with Indigenous artistic
traditions to upend commonly held conceptions of historical
narratives and illuminate absurdities in the formation of dominant
culture. Her drawings, prints, paintings, and sculptures blur
categories and question why certain visual languages attain
recognition, historical privilege, and value, reflecting her belief
that her “life’s work involves examining contemporary life in
America and interpreting it through Native ideology.” Also
central to Smith’s work and thinking is the land and she
emphasizes that Native people have always been part of the land:
“These are my stories, every picture, every drawing is telling a
story. I create memory maps.” The publication illustrates nearly
five decades of Smith’s work in all media, accompanied by essays
and short texts by contemporary Indigenous artists and scholars on
each of Smith’s major bodies of work. Distributed for Whitney
Museum of American Art Exhibition Schedule: Whitney Museum
of American Art, New York April 19–August 13, 2023 Modern Art
Museum of Fort Worth October 15, 2023–January 7, 2024 Seattle Art
Museum February 15–May 12, 2024
Art for a New Understanding, an exhibition from Crystal Bridges
Museum of American Art opening this October, seeks to radically
expand and reposition the narrative of American art since 1950 by
charting a history of the development of contemporary Indigenous
art from the United States and Canada, beginning when artists moved
from more regionally-based conversations and practices to national
and international contemporary art contexts.This accompanying book
documents and expands on the histories and themes of this exciting
exhibition. This fully illustrated volume includes essays by art
historians and historians and reflections by the artists included
in the collection. Also included are key contemporary writings-from
the 1950s onward-by artists, scholars, and critics, investigating
the themes of transculturalism and pan-Indian identity, traditional
practices conducted in radically new ways, displacement, forced
migration, shadow histories, the role of personal mythologies as a
means to reimagine the future, and much more. As both a survey of
the development of Indigenous art from the 1950s to the present and
a consideration of Native artists within contemporary art more
broadly, Art for a New Understanding expands the definition of
American art and sets the tone for future considerations of the
subject. It is an essential publication for any institution or
individual with an interest in contemporary Native American art,
and an invaluable resource in ongoing scholarly considerations of
the American contemporary art landscape at large.
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