Opening Night Preview Benefits SWAIA
THURSDAY, AUGUST 11TH 6-9PM MDT
SHOW DATES: AUGUST 12 - AUGUST 21, 2022
Artwork: Rick Bartow, Ship of Fools, 1993
EL MUSEO CULTURAL DE SANTA FE
555 CAMINO DE LA FAMILIA
SANTA FE, NM, 87501
Presented by Trotta-Bono Contemporary
Sponsored by Objects of Art Shows and El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe
Rooted in tradition, Native artists today are creating dynamic cross-cultural dialogues examining our past and reinterpreting our shared future.
Looking Forward through the Past: Contemporary Native American Art is an exhibition that will connect early transitional artists such as Stephen Mopope, Pop Chalee and Pablita Velarde to formative artists of the 20th century such as George Morrison, Fritz Scholder and Rick Bartow with important artists of today like Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Tony Abeyta and Edgar Heap of Birds.
Through these diverse voices, we are witness to a continuing narrative of ancestral knowledge and progress. Each generation standing upon the shoulders of the previous. This connection to the past has uniquely served Native artists and by extension - the larger art community.
From August 11th - 21st with Objects of Art and El Museo de Cultural, Trotta-Bono Contemporary will present a cross-section of artwork by these integral figures of the 20th and 21st Century.
The exhibition will also include Shake, Rattle & Roll, a dynamic installation of approximately 300 hand-made rattles by Mohawk artist Richard Glazer Danay. The installation took approximately three years to complete. It will be on view August 11th - 14th.
“Rattles are spiritually sacred instruments used by the majority of North American Indians. Rattles are used in religious ceremonies, rituals, feasts and healing ceremonies as well as social dances and gatherings… There is a connection between the sound of the rattle, which is invisible, and the spiritual, which is unseen. The sound of a rattle is fashioned from air and vanishes back into air once it is heard… The rattles that I make are an extension of this tradition, intended to reflect the use of 21st Century materials in making contemporary rattles from modern sources.”
— Richard Glazer Danay
About: Objects of Art & American Indian/Tribal Santa Fe
As always, the show brings together the world’s most knowledgeable experts in the field, offering hundreds of select objects ranging from contemporary to historic. The show will include paintings, sculpture, and fine art of all kinds, furniture, books, fashion, jewelry, textiles, and tribal, folk, American Indian, African, and Asian art – objects of art from around the world. Objects of Art show is open August 11th - 14th. Learn more here.