red bar at left; grey bar at right; black blocks in URC and LLC; small dark pink square, LRC; "Wisdom" and "KNOWLEDGE" at top; male and female Native American figures flanking boy with hoop, squared-off robot-like figure and clown in grey at bottom; sketchy abstracted black figure in ULQ with oval on chest; skeletal figures in white at right; teepee surrounded by figures enclosed in walls with mathematic symbols, URC

%C2%A9 Jaune Quick-to-See Smith%2C Courtesy the artist and Garth Greenan Gallery%2C New York

Survival: Wisdom/Knowledge, 1996

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Jaune Quick-to-See Smith combines her Native aesthetic with abstraction found in Western art. She adeptly mixes text and imagery to inject subtle hints or overt references to subjects she wants her viewers to consider. The lithographs in Smith’s four-part Survival series are named for Native social models that have given Indigenous people resilience, allowing them to survive the severe disruption brought about by colonialism. The other subjects in the series are Nature/Medicine, Tribe/Community, and Humor.

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Title
Survival: Wisdom/Knowledge
Artist Life
American (Salish, Nehiiyawak and Aqui-Dika), born 1940
Role
Artist
Accession Number
2008.66.1
Provenance
Zanatta Editions, Shawnee, Kansas (publisher); [Joe Zanatta Contemporary Art, Shawnee, Kansas]; sold to MIA, 2008.
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red bar at left; grey bar at right; black blocks in URC and LLC; small dark pink square, LRC; "Wisdom" and "KNOWLEDGE" at top; male and female Native American figures flanking boy with hoop, squared-off robot-like figure and clown in grey at bottom; sketchy abstracted black figure in ULQ with oval on chest; skeletal figures in white at right; teepee surrounded by figures enclosed in walls with mathematic symbols, URC

© Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Courtesy the artist and Garth Greenan Gallery, New York