Yesterday I posted about a new exhibit at the Heard Museum featuring Kay WalkingStick's paintings. Today I have three of the paintings from the Heard Collection that she chose to go with this exhibit of her works. I found the one above fascinating. It's by Dennis Numkena who was an architect as well as an artist. He formed the first Native American owned architectural firm in Arizona. This painting is called "Sky City" and it is described as "imagining a future world informed by Hopi cosmologies and ways of being." To me it has a "Star Wars" look to it. I like it a lot.
This painting is by Darren Vigil-Gray and it's called Motherland of Basketmakers #16. He is an Apache artist and musician who studied at the Santa Fe's Institute of American Indian Arts. He has painted a series of paintings with the same name and featuring this type of lush landscape.
This last painting is called Sun's Power and it was painted by David Chethlahe Paladin. Paladin was an influential artist in his contributions to contemporary Native American arts. His paintings always contained Native American symbols and patterns many of which were formed into something new and imaginative.
These are three completely different styles of art but I can see why they would appeal to Kay WalkingStick and her artistic vision.
This is another great show that makes you think about what you are seeing. I'm sure I'll tour it again before this exhibit ends.
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Sun's Power is beautiful.
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