Cara RomeroAlika No. 1
Art Bridges Collection
Jaune Quick-to-See-SmithPlayground
About
In Playground, artist Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (a member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes) reimagines petroglyphs from Ancestral Pueblo peoples in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Playground belongs to a series of paintings that envision the ruins as vibrant abstract landscapes blended with representations of living beings. Simplified human and horse forms in the top-right corner are surrounded by colorful geometric shapes. The particular site that Smith visualizes in this composition was threatened by suburban housing development projects in the 1980s. In response, multiple citizen campaigns were launched to protect the petroglyphs.
Thousands of petroglyph images by Ancestral Puelo peoples are carved into a volcanic escarpment in Albuquerque, New Mexico. In the 1980s, this site was threatened by suburban housing development projects, and multiple citizen campaigns were launched to protect the petroglyphs. Alongside this response, artist Jaune Quick-to-See Smith created a series of paintings that reimagined the petroglyphs into vibrant images of abstract landscapes blended with representations of living beings.
Artist
Jaune Quick-to-See-Smith
Dimensions
75 x 50 in.
Credit Line
Art Bridges
Date
1987
Medium
Oil on canvas
Object Number
AB.2025.43
Provenance
Pending
