Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, whose art centered Native life, dies at 85

[Mosby]

Source: Washington Post

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, an artist and curator who blazed a path for Native Americans in the contemporary art world, deftly exploring themes of Indigenous identity, ecological destruction and imperial conquest while infusing her work with satire and wit, died Jan. 24 at her home in Corrales, New Mexico. She was 85.

Her death was announced by the Garth Greenan Gallery in Manhattan, which represented her. She had pancreatic cancer, the gallery said.

Ms. Smith was among the country’s most renowned Native artists, crafting pieces that incorporated Indigenous images and motifs — tepees, totem poles, the trickster figure Coyote — as well as modern art techniques drawn from American masters like Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol. Bridging those two worlds, she once said, was “like being able to speak two languages and find the word that is common to both.”


Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2025/02/07/jaune-quick-to-see-smith-dead/

[SheltieLover]

1. Rest in power

[FM123]

2. Wow, what trailblazer she was!

"She was the first Native American artist to have a painting acquired by the National Gallery of Art and to have a retrospective organized by the Whitney."

[CTyankee]

3. firewall. can't read, damnit! I try and try but can't get it. I gave up.