John Quick Sea Smith, a fearless artist, and an unforeseen supporter of her companion, who viewed the perfect complexity of the modern indigenous experience, January 24. I was 85 years old at my home in Coralz, New Mexico.
Her death was announced by Garus Green Gallery in New York. The gallery said she had pancreatic cancer.
Smith's Aviding Arts Medium was the largest collage. Including a variety of works, including mixed media canvas and collectors that have been conceptually colored, and the drawing and paintings that Joshua Hunt recently explained in the New York Times that “Candinsky is loosened in the American plains” -she is often seamlessly. Political mentions influenced by Europe, the United States, and native art history who married an individual.
Ronnie H. Cohen has gained clues from artists such as Paul Clee, Joan Miro, and Robert Raushenberg, who wrote about the 1980 pastel show and the paintings of American art charcoal. He pointed out that he drew the story of the story and the decorative abstraction of Hirahara. 。
All of these sources were a consistent color palette of red and brown. The sensation is clearly composed of impressive central images that are often balanced by the surrounding border. And the relentless instinct of Smith's story.
“A part of what I am doing in my job is to use my job as a platform for my belief,” she said in an interview with the Smithsonian American Museum. “Can you tell me the story? Can you give it a good story? Can you add humor? Can I take your attention? All of these are trying to do it in my own artwork. It is.
That does not mean that the combination was always in harmony. On the contrary, Smith's work was usually characterized by special kind of tension. “1992) (1992) (1992) is a 14 -foot painting with a simple canoe on top of a native American newspaper photo. Smith is a dry rope sporting supplies. I hung a chewing bucket packet and other items depicting stereotypes of native American.
The frank and de facto quality in the photo is surprisingly confronted with a caricature with the grin of a Cleveland Indian baseball cap, but the paintings are more or less conventional flat surface, and the object line of the object hanging on it. It shows a similar type of collision. 。
In other words, it is an artwork that refuses to calm down, regardless of whether you consider that content or its form.
Smith's career as a curator began in the 1970s, and as a student at the University of New Mexico, she formed a group of other five native students and Gray Canyon artists, and held a travel exhibition immediately. Her career was also taking off. Shortly thereafter, she held the first New York City Solo Show in Corn Brie Gallery and was reviewed in the United States and the village.
However, she was the first native American artist in her room, so I was very struggling to get there, so I understood it was the basic value of her culture. Beware of the access that she won with his friends.
She curated more than 30 indigenous art. “The ancestors are being carried to the land: contemporary art by Native Americans” opened in the National Museum of Art in Washington in 2023, with nearly 50 participating artists participating. At the Jimari Museum of Art, New Jersey, the current show, “Identity of the Indigenous Tribe: Always, now,” there are a variety of media works created by 74 indigenous and 97 living artists in the community. Included.
“I'm not alone. I am one of many people,” said Smith in 2023. “My community is coming together.”
JAUNE (pronounced “Zhawn”) was born on January 15, 1940 in the St. Ignati Usumi Mission in a flat head Indian settlement in western Montana. She was a Salish member registered in the South Army Salish and Coutenai. She also had the ancestors of Cry and Shoshene in France. The name Quick-to-SEE came from the same name Great grandmother with the same name.
Her mother, Hazel Wixon, disappeared from her life when she was two, and she was raised as her father Arthur Albert Smith and horse traders.
She has survived by Andy Ambrose, a retired personal consultant in the high -tech industry. Her son, Bill Ambrose and Neil Ambrose Smith, are often artists who worked with her. Her daughter, Roxane Ambrose. And seven grandchildren.
In 2021, he talked to the New York Times, and Smith explained his childhood. Many of them spent “Dystopian” in Washington. In addition to selling horses with his father, she chose fruits and vegetables with adults and processed it.
However, she found time to become a greedy reader while hiding to avoid chores. I was able to save a piece of paper drawn by my father. When she was 13, she watched the 1953 movie Moulin Rouge and decided to become an artist about the French painter Henri de Tours Routlek.
Despite the economic challenge, women have pursued higher education, become artists, and are discouraged by instructors who say that Indians do not go to college, but Olympic University in Bremarton, Washington I got an quasi -academic person. 1960. In 1976, he obtained a bachelor's degree at Fremingham State University in Massachusetts. In 1980, he got a master's degree at the University of New Mexico. The University of New Mexico will later award the honorary Ph.D., like Minneapolis Art Design, Massachusetts and Design College, and Pennsylvania Academy.
In the 1980s, Smith was still modestly reduced, and most of them were working on abstract paintings and paper. Her work was bigger, troublesome, clearer, and more complicated around the end of the ten years.
“In the 1980s, I was talking to my partner Andy Ambrose, and I told him. I didn't tell the message,” she remembered in 2023. “And he said,” Well, think about the icon. Maybe you need an icon. “And did I start thinking about what my tribes might see most? And I thought about female cut wing dresses, male war shirts, male vests, canoe, buffalo, horses, and coyote. “
She has begun to draw a large outline of horses, canoe, male, and buffalo, as in the “Indian drawing lesson (after Leonardo)” (1993). Vittle Bian.
However, even if she simplified the motif, she had greatly increased the number of elements found behind it. The big canoe that appeared in two 16 -foot painting, “Don Quixote's Trade Canoe” (2004) and “Trade Canoe: Don Quixote of Schemeria” (2005), have undertaken the involvement of the Iraqi War and the center of the United States. 。 In the east, there is a rich cast of a strong passenger.
“If you look carefully,” Smith explained. He mentions Jose Guadalupo Posada, skulls, devils, magics, skeletons, Mickey mouse with dollar signs, and works on images of Goya and Picasso's war. “
She has begun to cut out newspapers to make her goals and modern native life more transparent to viewers. The technique was borrowed from Robert Lauchenberg, but the effect of Smith's hand was different.
“If you do it,” she remembered in the 2023 New York Times profile, “I can make it really like saying something.”
Smith's work is collected by many museums, including the Smithonian American Museum in Minneapolis, the Contemporary Museum of New York, the Brooklyn Museum, the Metropolitan Museum, and the National Museum of Art.
The 2023 exhibition at the Memory Map, an American art museum at the Whitney Museum, was the culmination of five solo shows. It was also the first retrospective exhibition of a native American artist at the museum.
“I think it's a miracle, and every time I talked to the audience, she said in 2021.
