Imogene Goodshot Arquero

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Imogene Goodshot Arquero is an Oglala Lakota beadwork artist from South Dakota, [1] who lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. [2]

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Imogene Jessie Goodshot Arquero is the great-great-granddaughter of the Oglala Lakota war chief, Crazy Horse (c. 1840–1877). [3] She is married to painter Dominic Arquero (Cochiti Pueblo). [2] [4]

Art career

Imogene Arquero is known for her beadwork, in which she combines historic techniques with forms from mainstream culture such as tennis shoes and baseball caps. [5] She began her career as beadwork artist, working in classical Northern Plains styles before experimenting with new forms. [6]

The artist taught "Traditional Techniques" at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe in the 1970s. [3]

Arquero participated in Women of Sweetgrass, Cedar and Sage, [7] a 1985 traveling exhibition of contemporary Native women artists curated by Harmony Hammond and Jaune Quick-to-See Smith. She has also exhibited in Santa Fe Indian Market.

Public collections

Arquero's work is held by the Fenimore Art Museum, among other institutions. [8]

References

  1. ↑ "Fine Art and Outsiders: Attacking the Barriers". The New York Times. 9 February 1996. Retrieved 6 June 2017.
  2. 1 2 "Native Arts & Culture « Comment Page 1". greenfiretimes.com. Retrieved 6 June 2017.[ permanent dead link ]
  3. 1 2 "Imogene Gooshot". New Mexico Digital Collections. University of New Mexico. Retrieved 23 October 2019.
  4. ↑ "Fort McDowell Indian Art Show draws crowds" . Retrieved 6 June 2017.
  5. ↑ Charlotte Streifer Rubinstein (1990). American women sculptors: a history of women working in three dimensions . G.K. Hall. ISBN   978-0-8161-8732-4.
  6. ↑ Lucy R. Lippard (1990). Mixed blessings: new art in a multicultural America . Pantheon Books. ISBN   978-0-394-57759-3.
  7. ↑ Lincoln, Kenneth (1993). Indi'n Humor: Bicultural Play in Native America. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 142. ISBN   0-19-506887-4.
  8. ↑ "Fenimore Art Museum". collections.fenimoreartmuseum.org. Retrieved 6 June 2017.
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