Jaune Quick-to-See Smith

Memory Map

Laura Phipps, Neal Ambrose-Smith, Andrea Carlson , Lou Cornum

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Yale University Press
21 July 2023

Five decades of work by groundbreaking Indigenous artist Jaune Quick-to-See Smith

Throughout her career as artist, activist, and educator, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (b. 1940) has forged a personal yet accessible visual language she uses to address environmental destruction, war, genocide, and the misreading of the past. An enrolled Salish member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation, Smith cleverly deploys elements of abstraction, neo-expressionism, and pop, fusing them with Indigenous artistic traditions to upend commonly held conceptions of historical narratives and illuminate absurdities in the formation of dominant culture. Her drawings, prints, paintings, and sculptures blur categories and question why certain visual languages attain recognition, historical privilege, and value, reflecting her belief that her “life’s work involves examining contemporary life in America and interpreting it through Native ideology.” Also central to Smith’s work and thinking is the land and she emphasizes that Native people have always been part of the land: “These are my stories, every picture, every drawing is telling a story. I create memory maps.” The publication illustrates nearly five decades of Smith’s work in all media, accompanied by essays and short texts by contemporary Indigenous artists and scholars on each of Smith’s major bodies of work.

Distributed for Whitney Museum of American Art

Exhibition Schedule:

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

April 19–August 13, 2023

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

October 15, 2023–January 7, 2024

Seattle Art Museum

February 15–May 12, 2024

By: Laura Phipps
Contributions by: Neal Ambrose-Smith, Andrea Carlson, Lou Cornum, Alicia Harris
Imprint: Yale University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 295mm, Width: 248mm,
ISBN: 9780300269789
ISBN 10: 0300269781
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 21 July 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Laura Phipps is assistant curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Reviews for Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Memory Map

“Responsibility, community building and care-taking are her cornerstones; several essays contained within Memory Map note Smith’s commitment to teaching, rallying other Indigenous artists and refracting her works.”—Gazelle Mba, World of Interiors