Net Lounge: A Modern Alternative to the Traditional Outdoor Armchair

Nov 1, 2023 By Admin in Design

The Net Lounge, designed by Raffaello Galiotto for Nardi, is a modern alternative to the traditional outdoor armchair made with uniformly colored recyclable fiberglass polypropylene resins with UV additives. A generously deep, rounded seat and wave-like profile envelope your body while watching the sunset, reading, napping, or doing absolutely nothing at all.

A member of the larger Net Collection, the Net Lounge features a low seat position and well-designed backrest tilt for ergonomics. The stackable structure is light and breathable, thanks to a radial pattern of square perforations that are uniformly distributed over the surface of the armchair. The smart addition of towel clips helps keep your towel in place and safe from expectedly windy days, while non-slip feet keep the Lounge safely grounded.

The Net Lounge is a perfect choice for poolsides, terraces, and all other outdoor spaces where you just want to sit back and say “ahhhh…” Choose from six matte colors, and add a cushion for even deeper relaxation. Also, check out the rest of the Net Collection, which includes chairs, armchairs, loveseats, tables, and stools.‎

To learn more about the Net Lounge, visit nardioutdoor.com.

Kelly Beall is Director of Branded Content at Design Milk. The Pittsburgh-based writer and designer has had a deep love of art and design for as long as she can remember, from Fashion Plates to MoMA and far beyond. When not searching out the visual arts, she’s likely sharing her favorite finds with others. Kelly can also be found tracking down new music, teaching herself to play the ukulele, or on the couch with her three pets – Bebe, Rainey, and Remy. Find her @designcrush on social.

Become part of St. Pete’s artistic community with hands-on classes at ArtsXchange – I Love the Burg

Nov 1, 2023 By Admin in Printmaking

With the possible exception of sunshine, there is nothing else for which St. Petersburg is more celebrated than its expansive arts scene. The heart of that community is in the […]

Photography display in the library showcases Alaska’s scenery and wildlife

Nov 1, 2023 By Admin in Photography

Photo by Cheryl Strahl.

‘Alaska is Calling’ exhibit to be on display this November

– Cheryl Strahl, a retired software engineer, is set to showcase her photography in an exhibit titled “Alaska Is Calling” this November. Strahl, known for her spontaneous approach to photography, says she draws inspiration from the natural world, particularly the play of light.

“Light is my guide. Where it leads, I follow—camera in hand—as it paints color and shadow, emphasizing lines and shapes, shifting its magic from moment to moment,” Strahl said, “I am a traveler, but wherever I go, it’s the light that calls to me, offering new perspectives and revealing bits of the world in a way I’ve never seen before.”

Her exhibit, “Alaska Is Calling,” will feature photographs captured during her four journeys to Alaska. The collection will include a wide range of scenic vistas and wildlife encounters.

For those interested in Strahl’s work and photography, additional information can be found on her website at cheryl-strahl.pixels.com. Details about art displays at the library can be accessed via prcity.com or by contacting Don Rader at (805) 237-3870.

The library’s regular hours of operation are Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. For further information, the library can be reached at (805) 237-3870, or additional updates can be found on the library’s official website and its social media profiles on Facebook and Instagram.

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Interview with photographer Barry Hassel

Nov 1, 2023 By Admin in Photography

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I stumbled across the talent of local photographer Barry Hassel on full display Saturday, Oct. 7, during the annual arts festival at Del Webb residential resort.

Hassel was raised in both Brooklyn and Queens, New York. The mysteries author (Richard Standring) I had profiled on in the Oct. 4 Journal Scene also lives there and had a table. I met lots of creatives at the festival, but certainly Hassel’s photography is quite eye-catching – some of them look like a painting.

Hassel takes photos of nature, cityscapes and travel scenes. The Del Webb Cane Bay Resident News magazine also did a feature on Hassel within the last three or four months.

Regan: What turned you on to photography?

Hassel: I first discovered an interest in art at high school. I was told that I had an eye for photography, but I was more of a graphic designer, overall.

R: Did you attend college for photography or graphic arts?

H: Having found my focus, I then majored in graphic design and advertising at Pratt University and the New York City College of Technology. After completing my degree, I began a 35-year career in graphic design. I joined a small firm in New York, but soon discovered I wanted to branch out on my own. I ran the highly successful Group IV Graphics studio in Manhattan’s Chelsea area near the Flat Iron building, which created corporate identity, web design, advertising and collateral print material for clients in fashion, hospitals, food and more. I did have to do a couple of fashion and other photo shoots at times, but my work was primarily focused on graphic design. I did not get into photography back then. I got into shooting pics a lot more once I retired and relocated here almost seven years ago.

R: What brought you to this region from New York?

H: I like the Charleston area — the architecture, the sights. There is a lot of great art here. After retiring and moving to Del Webb, I became a member of the Fine Arts Club Board of Directors, and am co-president of the Del Webb (Cane Bay) Photography Club. I designed the front cover for our Del Webb Cane Bay magazine. I am also a member of the Carolina Nature Photography Association (CNPA), which has several locales throughout the Carolinas, with perhaps a few thousand members. They print a quarterly magazine called “Camera in the Wild” and my photos were selected twice to appear on the cover. My perspective invites the viewer to step into the picture to experience the drama and mood of an image. I cover many topics in the photo club, including intentional camera movement. I have done minimalistic photography. In other words, it’s not busy with a lot of different images and colors to deal with, so you have as little information in the picture as possible. It can be very dramatic. It could be a picture of just water and clouds. It would be a picture that does not have a lot of images and colors to deal with.

R: What is your favorite subject to photograph? Where have you traveled to that you just loved to capture on film? What is your secret to getting the best results?

H: I enjoy both nature and architecture photography, but I also like abstract subjects, too. I like images that tell a story and have a mood or a feeling when you can look at it and each person looking at it may interpret it differently. In terms of travel, we’ve been to England and Italy. In Switzerland, I really liked Zermatt and Lucerne, which were great places — I really liked it there. The most important parts of taking a picture are the time of day, location, composition, depths, emotion and color, which are all key elements. There is something called the “leading line” that brings your eye into the picture, and that’s what you want to accomplish. Thepost-process in photography is also critical as it has an impact on the color and lighting (or the white balancing) of the images.

R: Who are your favorite artists or photographers?

H: Andy Warhol was a great artist. Picasso and Van Gogh were both unbelievably talented artists. I liked Ansel Adams and Mark Klett’s works.

R: Have your works been on display anywhere? Have you ever been in any photo contests?

H: No, I have never really had any interest in doing that. Photography is more of a hobby for me. It keeps my mind going.

R: What are your overall thoughts about photography?

H: My goal in photography is well expressed in a quote by Ansel Adams, who said, “A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.” Ansel Adams was criticized in his own day for too much processing in the darkroom. Ansel was famous for saying, “The negative is the equivalent of the composer’s score, and the print the performance.”

Mary E. Regan is a columnist for The Journal Scene and a freelance publicist with her propublicist.com consultancy. She is always seeking new publicity clients and writing projects. Email story ideas to mary@propublicist.com.

A Studio of Her Own: Deborah Maris Lader On “How Birds Fly…”

Nov 1, 2023 By Admin in Printmaking

An accomplished printmaker, Lader has been at the helm of Chicago Printmakers Collaborative since founding it in 1989. But now it’s time to delve into her own work entirely.

Celebrate National Native American Heritage Month!

Nov 1, 2023 By Admin in Native

“As we celebrate National Native American Heritage Month this November, we recognize Native cultures as innovative, nuanced, and essential elements of our historic and contemporary cultural landscape.

The works of playwright Larissa FastHorse (Sicangu Lakota Nation), composer Raven Chacon (Diné/Navajo), visual artist Wendy Red Star (Apsáalooke (Crow), to name just a few Native artists and culture bearers, help us understand our world from different perspectives.

They offer us windows into diverse ways of thinking, feeling and being–helping us recognize our commonalities and meaningful differences, lifting up our humanity.

We encourage you to seek out and learn more about Native artists this month on NEA social media channels and other resources.” — NEA Chair Maria Rosario Jackson

Davidsmeyer Announces Second Photography Contest Winner

Nov 1, 2023 By Admin in Photography

State Representative C.D. Davidsmeyer has announced the second winner to his 100^th District photo contest.

A photograph of wheat soaking up the sun, ready for harvest taken by Brenda Reif-Ranger of Eldred was the winner. The photograph will be displayed in Davidsmeyer’s Capitol office in Springfield. The second-round runner-up winner, Julie Sellers of Winchester will also have her photo displayed in Rep. Davidsmeyer’s Capitol office. The photo contest is running through 2023 with winners chosen at three different times throughout the year. The first round of pictures was selected on July 15and the second round was selected October 1^st. The third deadline will be December 15th.

If you have questions or would like to submit a photo for the contest, call Davidsmeyer’s Jacksonville office at 217-243-6221 or email RepCDDavidsmeyer@gmail.com.

November 2023 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists

Nov 1, 2023 By Admin in Art World News

Mural by Adele Renault

Every month, Colossal shares a selection of opportunities for artists and designers, including open calls, grants, fellowships, and residencies. If you’d like to list an opportunity here, please get in touch at hello@colossal.art. You can also join our monthly Opportunities Newsletter.

$3,500 Artist Grants | The Hopper PrizeFeatured
The Hopper Prize offers two awards of $3,500 and four of $1,000. Submissions will be juried by Laura Phipps, Assistant Curator of the Whitney Museum of American Art, and Rachel Winter, Assistant Curator of the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum. Thirty artists will be selected for a shortlist. This is an international open call, and all visual media is eligible.
Deadline: 11:59 p.m. PST on November 14, 2023.

On::View Artist ResidencyFeatured
Located in the heart of Savannah’s Starland District, this one-month residency provides a free, high-visibility studio for an artist to complete a new or existing project or to research conceptual, material, performative, and social practices. The program is open to artists from around the world working in any medium and includes an exhibition opportunity.
Deadline: 11:59 p.m. ET on December 1, 2023.

2024 NOT REAL ART Grant for ArtistsFeatured
Six visual artists based in the U.S. and working in any 2D or 3D medium will win a no-strings-attached cash award of $2,000, plus PR and marketing support. There’s no application fee.
Deadline: 11:59 p.m. PT on January 1, 2024.

Open Calls

Beam Center NYC Open Call (International)
The center seeks proposals for public artworks that will be realized by a community of more than 100 young people in NYC. Artists receive a $5,000 award and a $15,000 fabrication budget.
Deadline: 11:59 p.m. ET on November 6, 2023.

The 10th International Landscape Photographer of the Year (International)
This contest awards winners $10,000 in cash prizes, inclusion in a photo book, and NiSi filter outfits and tripods. Entry is free until November 8.
Deadline: November 15, 2023.

Third Annual Festival Dei Lumi Open Call (International)
Video artists working on pieces that explore the intersection of art, nature, and ecological thinking are encouraged to submit to this annual festival. There is a €10 submission fee.
Deadline: November 22, 2023.

Arte Laguna Prize (International)
The 18th annual Arte Laguna Prize is open to artists working across disciplines who want to exhibit their work in Venice. There is a €149 application fee.
Deadline: November 22, 2023.

Locust Projects Project Room Open Call (International)
Artists are invited to submit proposals for installations that haven’t been previously exhibited to be shown at the new Locust space in Miami. Successful applicants will receive a $5,000 project budget, a $3,100 artist fee, and aid for travel and accommodations.
Deadline: November 30, 2023.

BLINK Cincinnati Call for Artists (International)
BLINK, Illuminated by ArtsWave, is calling for artists working in light-based experiential installation, murals, projection mapping, digital art, or animation to submit proposals. BLINK plans to commission 12 to 15 new murals, 30 to 40 temporary lighted installations, and 30 to 35 projection/digital animation installations.
Deadline: December 15, 2023.

Prisma Art Prize (International)
Open to emerging painters and artists, this quarterly competition awards €2,000 in cash and €3,000 in services annually, plus exhibition opportunities. There is a €29 submission fee.
Deadline: January 11, 2024.

Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2025 (United States, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, and the U.S. Virgin Islands)
This portrait competition is open to all media, including painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, printmaking, textiles, video, performance art, and digital or time-based art. One winner will receive $25,000 and a commission to portray a remarkable living American for the National Portrait Gallery’s collection. Other prizes range from $1,000 to $10,000, and all finalists will be included in an exhibition. There is a $50 entry fee.
Deadline: Midnight MT on January 26, 2024.

Sony Future Filmmaker Awards (International)
The Sony Future Filmmaker Awards elevates voices that bring a fresh perspective to storytelling. The shortlisted filmmakers are flown to Los Angeles for an exclusive four-day event to gain unparalleled insight into all aspects of the filmmaking process to advance their careers.
Deadline: February 15, 2024.

Grants

California Documentary Project Grants (California)
This grant supports documentary film, audio, and digital media projects about California. Funding is available for research and development (up to $15,000), production (up to $50,000), and in DP NextGen Grants (up to $15,000).
Deadline: November 1, 2023.

National Sculpture Society Stanley Bleifeld Memorial Grant (U.S.)
This annual $5,000 prize is awarded to one sculptor working in the round and in bas-relief who has been inspired by nature.
Deadline: November 6, 2023.

Rathaus Film Grant (Detroit)
This $10,000 grant supports the development, production, or installation of a film or video art project. Artists should plan to complete the proposed project within one year of receiving the award.
Deadline: 12 p.m. ET on November 10, 2023.

Eugenie Designer Grant (Detroit)
This $10,000 grant supports Detroit-based fashion designers prioritizing sustainable practices. Applications should include a proposed project to be completed within one year of receiving the award.
Deadline: November 10, 2023.

The David Prize (New York)
Five New Yorkers will receive $200,000 awards for projects that help their home city. Projects can vary in topic and field and include art and culture, workforce and economic development, civic engagement, environment and sustainability, immigrant rights, food and nutrition, and more.
Deadline: November 13, 2023.

Women’s Studio Workshop Grants (U.S.)
Women’s Studio Workshop has several funding opportunities open to artists working in bookmaking, printmaking, and other paper-based mediums.
Deadline: November 15, 2023.

Nordic PhotoBook Award (Norway)
Photographers with a cohesive body of work interested in publishing a book are invited to apply for this Kr 200,000 award to support the production, distribution, and promotion of the work.
Deadline: January 1, 2024.

The Adolf and Esther Gottlieb Emergency Grant (International)
The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Emergency Grant program provides one-time interim financial assistance to qualified painters, printmakers, and sculptors whose needs are the result of an unforeseen catastrophic incident and who lack the resources to meet that situation. Awardees typically receive $5,000, up to $15,000.
Deadline: Rolling.

Adobe Creative Residency Community Fund (Ukraine)
Adobe’s Creative Residency Community Fund commissions visual artists to create company projects on a rolling basis. Awardees will receive between $500 and $5,000.
Deadline: Rolling.

Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (International)
The foundation welcomes applications from actively exhibiting visual artists who are painters, sculptors, and artists who work on paper, including printmakers. Grants are intended for one year and range up to $50,000. The individual circumstances of the artist determine the size of the grant, and professional exhibition history is taken into consideration.
Deadline: Rolling.

Residencies, Fellowships, & More

A.I.R. Fellowship Program (New York)
Six underrepresented and emerging women and non-binary artists will be awarded a year-long fellowship to develop and exhibit a project at A.I.R. Gallery. Selected applicants receive a stipend, access to gallery space, and support.
Deadline: 11:59 p.m. ET on November 1, 2023.

Squeaky Wheel Workspace Residency (U.S.)
This residency supports filmmakers, writers, critics, curators, artists, and other practitioners working in media arts. Residents receive a $1,200 stipend, $400 in travel, accommodations, studio space, and an optional $900 financial assistance for disability or childcare.
Deadline: November 3, 2023.

MASS MoCA’s Artist Residency Program (International)
Applications are open for MASS MoCA’s residencies for artists, writers, and performers in the second half of 2024. Fully funded scholarships are available, and residents receive studio space and housing.
Deadline: 11 p.m. on November 8, 2023.

Artspace Pathways: A Native Space Initiative (Select U.S. states)
This program supports Native American arts and cultural organizations through a one-year virtual cohort. The goal is to assist organizations in professional development and finding physical spaces to work.
Deadline: November 10, 2023.

The Goethe-Institut Boston Studio 170 Residencies (New England)
This two-week residency program is open to projects of all types, including installations/exhibitions, performances/actions, artist talks, panel discussions, author readings, film screenings, digital projects, and more. Successful applicants are given access to several indoor and outdoor spaces, along with a $1,000 stipend and a $1,000 project budget.
Deadline: November 17, 2023.

Quinn Emanuel London Artist in Residence (London)
Emerging and mid-career artists working in all disciplines are eligible for this residency from January to May 2024. One chosen applicant will receive a £12,000 stipend, £1,000 material budget, and studio space.
Deadline: 11:59 p.m. GMT on November 19, 2023.

SmackMellon Artist Studio Program (New York City)
Six emerging or early career artists working in all visual arts mediums will be awarded private studio space.
Deadline: November 20, 2023.

2024 Bernheim Artist in Residence (International)
This program focuses on multi-disciplinary explorations of our relationship with nature. Two residencies are available: the regional program for local artists and another for artists working with the climate crisis. Both offer a $2,500 stipend, living and studio spaces, and research opportunities.
Deadline: Midnight ET on November 27, 2023.

Foundation House Artist Residency Program (International)
Six residents receive a $500 stipend, a private bedroom and bathroom, meals, and studio space. The residency will run from January 26 to February 4, 2024.
Deadline: 11:59 p.m. ET on December 3, 2023.

Arts/Industry at John Michael Kohler Arts Center (International)
Open to all disciplines, this program selects twelve artists each year for three-month pottery and foundry residencies. No experience with clay or cast metal is required, just an interest in pursuing a new body of work and being open to new ideas. Residents receive a $160 weekly stipend, studio space, housing, transportation, industrial materials, equipment, and more.
Deadline: February 1, 2024.

Hunter Moon Homestead Artist Residency (International)
Artists and arts educators working across disciplines are invited to apply to this program in Palouse. Residents receive one- to three-week stays, with lodging and studio space included.
Deadline: Rolling.

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Margaret Jacobs Creates Metalworks Inspired by Indigenous Culture

Nov 1, 2023 By Admin in Native

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Pamela Polston
“Partner Pieces: Mint I, Bolo Tie”

Humans have been coaxing metal into utilitarian, nefarious and artistic objects for millennia. Yet somehow, people still find inventive ways to craft it. For contemporary sculptor and jewelry maker Margaret Jacobs, the malleability and solidity of metals suits her aim to make permanent the ephemeral expressions of the natural world, as well as to carry cultural narratives.

In her artist’s statement, Jacobs puts it like this: “I find metal is an incredibly versatile material that lends strength and visual weight to the work, but can also be worked so that it is organic and delicate.”

Though larger, weightier sculptures are cataloged on Jacobs’ website, her current exhibition at Vermont Studio Center in Johnson presents small forged-steel sculptures and adornments in powder-coated brass. Titled “Shape of a Memory,” the show is modest in size but rich in symbolism.

A member of the Akwesasne Mohawk tribe, the upstate New York artist writes that her culture inspires her “to create pieces charged with power, strength and beauty.” Her ability to do just that has earned coverage in art journals and fashion magazines alike. A Harper’s Bazaar spotlight featuring one of Jacobs’ bolo ties, for example, observed that her work “speaks to the connection between community, self, and nature.”

Jacobs’ jewelry — which is really wearable sculpture — includes necklaces, bolos, earrings, brooches and collar pins, all with finely crafted botanical elements: strawberry, blueberry, mint, garlic, mushrooms. The works that she calls “Partner Pieces” attach to both sides of a shirt or jacket collar. One of these, “Blueberry I, Collar Pin,” features tiny clusters of the fruit with two fine brass chains swooping, necklace-like, between them. Another similar set replaces the berries with miniature antlers; in matching earrings, antlers dangle beneath purplish pieces of wampum.

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Pamela Polston
“Plantain I”

Most of the wall-hung or tabletop sculptures in the exhibit merge elements from botany — Jacobs calls them “plant relatives” — with referents to Mohawk ironworkers. Renowned for helping to construct bridges and buildings — including numerous New York City skyscrapers — members of the Mohawk and Kahnawake tribes (from upstate New York, Ontario and Québec) proudly passed down their “walking iron” tradition over generations.

Jacobs honors this history in steel sculptures such as “Plantain I,” a wall-hung piece in which a cluster of leaves and stem anchors a diminutive ladder. In a tabletop version, “Plantain With Nail,” an outsize screw nail lays on a pedestal and intersects the plant, whose stems shoot upward.

Jacobs graduated from Dartmouth College, where she has subsequently been a guest lecturer, and is currently adjunct faculty at SUNY Adirondack in Queensbury, N.Y. The long list of exhibitions, awards and residencies on her CV indicates an active presence, and a welcomed Indigenous voice, in the art world. With “Shape of a Memory,” Jacobs quietly but eloquently resolves cultural and material dichotomies with expressions of harmony.

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith affirms Native American heritage at the Fort Worth Modern

Nov 1, 2023 By Admin in Native

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith is what author and journalist Gail Sheehy called “a triumphant personality,” someone who has seen off circumstances that would have extinguished lesser lights. Born to a 14-year-old mother and a much older father in a Jesuit mission on the Flathead Reservation in Montana, she was destined to scoop up the learning of the ages, reduce it to its elemental inspiration drawn from deep inside the earth, then apply the panache of 20th-century painting to produce work as original as it is wise, as universal as it is anchored in the visual language of someone with plenty to say.

On view at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, “Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Memory Map” is an exhibition of paintings, prints, drawings and sculptures first assembled by curator Laura Phipps at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.

The point, Smith says while leading a group through the Modern show, is to declare, “We’re still here. … We live everywhere in the U.S., if not on a reservation then in a community.” Operating from an overflowing well of extraverted energy, her tiny frame dressed in black, from a Western hat with beaded band to sleek pants and boots, she makes a strenuous yet easy effort for the people around her. Indeed, to get Smith on the phone, as I did for an interview, is to hear a voice of such animated warmth that it seems suddenly the sun has appeared, promising a lovely encounter.

One might think a disposition as radiant as hers would come from an enchanted life. Not so. “As a kid, life was so tough,” she says. “I knew right away how white people were treated differently from Indigenous people. … Life is pretty scary.” After her mother left the family when Jaune and her sister were young, the girls lived with their father, moving from reservation to reservation as he traded horses for a living.

The 1974 work “Indian Madonna Enthroned” is among the works on display by artist Jaune Quick-to-See Smith.(Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth / Courtesy Garth Greenan Gallery, New York)

In time, Jaune was working, too, at any job available, including alongside migrant farm laborers in California. “They are related to me,” she says. “They are Indigenous, too.”

She hasn’t forgotten how the federal government “stole land, took land … millions of acres” owned in several Western states by her tribe, the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation, and gave in return a fraction of those holdings in the form of a reservation. The tribe had property in Canada, too, and there, “It was like a lobotomy,” she says. “You take away food, you take away clothing, you take away culture.

It’s happening in Ukraine. … It could happen here. We must be wise, [live] carefully, stay alert.”

Smith has always been alert and determined. After zig-zagging across the country from a community college in Washington state to a teachers’ college in Massachusetts (she was told she could teach art but not practice it, not as a woman and, especially, not as a Native American woman) to the University of New Mexico, which did not admit her until after three tries. By then, she already was gaining recognition for her work in New York.

One wall of the exhibition is covered in Jaune Quick-to-See Smith's takes on Gen. George... — One wall of the exhibition is covered in Jaune Quick-to-See Smith’s takes on Gen. George Armstrong Custer, who famously died in the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876.(Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth)

Neal Ambrose-Smith, Jaune’s son, also an artist, is with her in Fort Worth. His mother, he observes, “keeps going to the next door to find one that opens. She is not held back by closed doors.” Nor is she held back by previous, successful styles of making art. From a 1974 self-portrait of breathtaking power and beauty, she moved to abstraction over the next five years, arriving at pictures that only hint at her inner convictions with an occasional horse or canoe dropped in as a reference to her background. But in time the canvases grew larger, their authority more assured, till finally Jaune took a look and pronounced them “not political enough, not saying enough.”

Then began collages not only with fabric as before, but also newspapers, lightbulbs, baseball caps, and some with the sayings of Chief Seattle from 1854 (“The air is precious — for all things share the same breath, the animals, the plants and the humans”), others with her own commentary on capitalism and the corruption of modern culture (“Clear Cut Choice,” “Fusion Illusion?,” “Bedeviled by Ethnicity.”)

Jaune is a master printmaker, and during a week at the University of North Texas in 2002 she produced War Is Heck, dramatized by a horse, unremarkable enough, but surrounded by unlikely ironic images such as what appears to be a male Native American dancer winged like an angel; several buffalo, going from benign to aggressive, lined up like postage stamps; a quartet of American flags, small, discreet, nothing like the flag paintings Smith borrowed from Jasper Johns and put to devastating service illustrating the lands and petroglyphs of the earliest Native Americans, the products and slogans of modern Americans and more.

Before that piece came a satirical series of prints featuring Gen. George Armstrong Custer. With one of him lying down, another upside down, another still with a Magritte pipe, they echo a screen-print by Andy Warhol, but Smith’s interpretations are so murderously witty that they bring to mind Gloria Steinem’s masterful uses of ridicule.

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith worked with her son Neal Ambrose-Smith on the 2018 work “Trade Canoe: Making Medicine,” which is suspended from the ceiling and loaded with Styrofoam objects, wooden crosses and hypodermic needles — all coated in red ocher.(Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth / Collection of Beth Rudin DeWoody)

Then there’s the trade canoe made by Jaune and Neal. It’s suspended from the ceiling and loaded with Styrofoam objects like Starbucks coffee cups and takeout containers, hypodermic needles and wooden crosses, all coated in red ocher. For me, it’s the centerpiece of the show.

It could be said that with this retrospective, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith is coming into her own. But she has been coming into her own for most of her 83 years, just more forcefully with each iteration.

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“Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Memory Map” continues through Jan. 21 , 2024, at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, 3200 Darnell St., Fort Worth. Open Tuesday through Thursday and Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Friday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tickets are $16 for adults; $12 for seniors 60 and over, active and retired military personnel and first responders with ID; $10 for students with ID; and free for those under 18. themodern.org

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