Member Preview Days for Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Memory Map Apr 13–17, 2023

Member Preview Days for Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Memory Map

Apr 13–17, 2023

Light yellow background with red shapes in the foreground.
Light yellow background with red shapes in the foreground.

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, The Vanishing American, 1994. Acrylic, newspaper, paper, cotton, printing ink, chalk, and graphite pencil on canvas, 60 1/8 × 50 1/8 in. (152.7 × 127.3 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Dorothee Peiper-Riegraf and Hinrich Peiper in memory of Arlene LewAllen 2007.88. © Jaune Quick-to-See Smith

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Thursday, April 13, 10:30 am–6 pm
Friday, April 14, 10:30 am–10 pm
Saturday, Monday, April 15–17, 10:30 am–6 pm

Be among the first to explore Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Memory Map during five full days of Member Previews.

This exhibition is the first New York retrospective of Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (b. 1940, citizen of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation), an overdue but timely look at the work of a groundbreaking artist. Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Memory Map brings together nearly five decades of Smith’s drawings, prints, paintings, and sculptures in the largest and most comprehensive showing of her career to date.

Across decades and mediums, Smith has deployed and reappropriated ideas of mapping, history, and environmentalism while incorporating personal and collective memories. The retrospective will offer new frameworks to consider contemporary Native American art and show how Smith has led and initiated some of the most pressing dialogues around land, racism, and cultural preservation—issues at the forefront of contemporary life and art today.

During this time, Members also enjoy Preview access to Josh Kline: Project for a New American Centurythe first U.S. survey of the innovative multidisciplinary artist's work.  


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