Jaune Quick-to-See-Smith

Playground

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.