Spilling Over: Painting Color in the 1960s

At the center of April Contemplating May is a silhouette, a simplified self-portrait of the artist that emerges from the color blocking and framing her. Inspired by the sight of her shadow on the beach, Kay WalkingStick found a form that she felt could hold her multiple identities, as an artist, a woman, a mother, and an Indigenous person of Cherokee ancestry. Above her, there is a form that resembles a window; it is actually a painted reproduction of her work Pieces of Sky (1970), which she made in response to reports of pollution pouring into the air from a power station in Queens.