Jaune Quick-to-See Smith exhibition Opening

Date: Friday, May 3, 2024

Time: 10AM-9PM

Location: Gallery 258, Saint Louis Art Museum, 1 Fine Arts Dr, St. Louis, MO 63110

Details:

The exhibition will highlight Jaune Quick-to-See Smith’s works from the Museum collection. As one of the most celebrated contemporary artists of Indigenous heritage, this exhibition will span Smith’s career and draw attention to her work in St. Louis.

Across four decades and multiple media, Smith has developed a singular vision in contemporary art. Deploying a fragmentary aesthetic that layers text, found imagery, and the artist’s gestural brushstrokes, Smith advances Indigenous perspectives on land, history, and art.

The exhibition marks the SLAM debut for State Names Map: Cahokia and Trade Canoe: Cahokia, a recent painting and sculpture Smith created in 2023 for the Counterpublic triennial in St. Louis. Based on two of her long-running series, the painting and sculpture respond to deep histories of cross-cultural trade and Indigenous displacement associated with the St. Louis region. Early pastels by Smith and a series of prints from the mid-1990s, many of which the artist made in St. Louis at Washington University’s Island Press, provide a long view of the artist’s career.

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith is curated by Alexander Brier Marr, associate curator for Native American art.