Okuu Pín/Jason Garcia (Santa Clara Pueblo), #DutchBros #WildBerry, 2021, hand-processed clay, mineral pigments, traditional outdoor firing process, 6 3/4 x 9 in. Courtesy/MRM
MRM News:
Millicent Rogers Museum, (MRM) in association with the exhibition ‘New Mexico A-i-R: IAIA Artist Residents in Visual Dialogue’, presents the first discussion panel Thursday, Nov. 18.
The discussion will be centered on the theme “Illustration & The Figure: Pushing the Lines of Representation.”
This virtual panel focuses on the ways that these three artists based in northern New Mexico implement new avenues for illustration in cut paper drawings, mixed media paintings, serigraphic (silkscreen) prints, and clay tiles.
The conversation will focus on the artists’ arrival at their current techniques and their thematic intentions for using a particular medium.
This dialogue will explore the influence of comic books and animation on these artists’ practices.
The panel will be moderated by exhibition co-curators Dr. Michelle Lanteri and Dawning Pollen Shorty (Taos Pueblo, Diné, Lakota) and feature the following artists:
- Ian Kuali’i (Kanaka Maoli/Native Hawaiian, Shis Inday/Mescalero Apache descent) Kuali’i works in the medium of cut paper drawings to produce portraits of leaders significant to his own heritage and in the creative community at-large.
- Heidi Brandow (Diné, Kānaka Maoli) Brandow uses a combination of humor and introspection in her mixed media paintings of deconstructed figures to speak to the fragmentation of life in the twenty-first century.
- Jason Garcia (Santa Clara Pueblo) Garcia creates clay tiles that reflect the changing community of Santa Clara Pueblo and serigraphic prints that honor the history of Pueblo peoples and the 1680 Pueblo Revolt.
