Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Memory Map
On view through January 21, 2024
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
Fort Worth, Texas
www.themodern.org
The largest and most comprehensive showing of her work to date, “Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Memory Map” brings together nearly five decades of Smith’s drawings, prints, paintings, and sculptures. Smith engages with contemporary modes of art making, from her idiosyncratic adoption of abstraction to her reflections on American Pop art and Neo-Expressionism. These artistic traditions are incorporated and reimagined with concepts rooted in Smith’s own cultural practice, reflecting her belief that her “life’s work involves examining contemporary life in America and interpreting it through Native ideology.” Using satire and humor, Smith’s art tells stories that subvert commonly held conceptions of historical narratives and illuminate absurdities in the formation of dominant culture. Smith’s approach blurs traditional categories and questions why certain visual languages attain recognition, historical privilege, and value.
Find out more here: https://www.themodern.org/…/jaune-quick-see-smith…
[Image: Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Genesis, 1993. Oil, paper, newspaper, fabric, and charcoal on canvas, two panels: 60 × 100 inches. High Museum of Art, Atlanta; purchase with funds provided by AT&T NEW ART/NEW VISIONS and with funds from Alfred Austell Thornton in memory of Leila Austell Thornton and Albert Edward Thornton, Sr., and Sarah Miller Venable and William Hoyt Venable 1995.54 © Jaune Quick-to-See Smith. Photograph courtesy the artist and Garth Greenan Gallery, New York]
