Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Message in Modernism

Included in Women Only through February 22, 2014, at the Flomenhaft Gallery are masterworks by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith.  In the article Message in Modernism from the January 12, 2014, Albuquerque Journal, Kathaleen Roberts writes:

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Migration, 1995, oil on canvas, 60 x 50 inches

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith’s politically charged abstractions thrust her into the Modernist pantheon of Wassily Kandinsky, Willem de Kooning, and Joan Miro.  Santa Fe’s Georgia O’Keefe Museum curator Carolyn Kastner explores that ascension through “Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: An American Modernist” (University of New Mexico Press, 2013), the first full-length critical analysis of the Corrales artist’s paintings.

“She’s always telling a story, but she never makes it a pitiful thing,” Kastner said.  “She adds her voice to the record of the people”

Smith’s work hangs in the collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Denver Art Museum, Museum der Weltkulturen in Frankfurt, Germany, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Walker Art Center, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and London’s Victoria and Albert Museum.

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