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May 9, 2006
FUTURE OF NATIVE AMERICAN POTTERY LOOKS BRIGHT AS NEW GENERATION OF TALENT EMERGES
Capable, contemporary and at the creative forefront of their time-honored medium, the trio of artists featured in IAIA’s “Dualities” exhibition illustrates the trends and innovations that influence today’s generation of American Indian pottery artists.
“This is an exhibition that shows us what some of the leaders in this field are creating and how they are innovating with shapes, surfaces, clays, paints and incisions,” says Margaret Archuleta, the exhibition’s guest curator.
The exhibition’s featured artists are Nathan Begaye (Navajo, Hopi), Les Namingha (Zuni, Hopi-Tewa) and Dusty Naranjo (Santa Clara Pueblo). All of the work included in Dualities is three-dimensional except for one painting by Begaye.
According to guest curator Archuleta, the show’s title refers to the omnipresent and multifaceted challenges faced by Native American artists who chose to create their art in a contemporary vernacular.
“It wasn’t just the idea of finding contemporary ways of working in a traditional medium that attracted me to each artist,” she says. “Each artist also has to balance competing forces and factors in their own lives. These artists have complex lives and they live in multi-dimensional worlds. Through these carefully selected examples of their work I hoped to debunk the ‘Living in Two Worlds’ myth.”
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