For their newest exhibition, the Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University will be presenting works that yield from Native American art history.
Titled Memory and Markets: Pueblo Painting in the early 20th Century, this is a showcase of early Native American paintings that emerged in the Pueblo communities in the Southwestern Untied States during the early 20th century. Each of the featured works draws inspiration from centuries-old traditions of Pueblo painting that was seen in pottery, murals, and archaeological remains.
This exhibition will feature works from artists well known in exploring the history of the development of pueblo painting, and how it would evolve to inspire future generation of Native painters, while securing the continuation and expansion of traditions. These artists include Tonita Pena (Quah Ah) and Alfonso Roybal (Awa Tsireh), both from the San Ildefonso Pueblo. Also included are a selection of pottery from the Krywick Gibbons Gallery, and a painting from Allan Houser from the Academy of Sciences in San Francisco.
The Memory and Markets exhibition will also coincide with Stanford’s 41st annual Powwow, which will be hosted during Mother’s Day weekend, which is May 11th through the 13th. For more information on that event, go to www.stanfordpowwow.org. The exhibition at the Cantor Arts Center will run until May 27th.
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