Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Memory Map
Phipps, Laura
ISBN 10: 0300269781 ISBN 13: 9780300269789
Published by Whitney Museum of American Art, 2023
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Synopsis:
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:
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
About the Author: Laura Phipps is assistant curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
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Bibliographic Details
Title: Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Memory Map
Publisher: Whitney Museum of American Art
Publication Date: 2023
Binding: hardcover
Condition: Good