Linda Lomahaftewa
Linda Lomahaftewa | |
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Education | San Francisco Art Institute, Institute of American Indian Arts |
Known for | Painting, printmaking |
Awards | Robert Rauschenberg Foundation's Power of Art Award (2001) |
Website | https://www.lindalomahaftewa.com |
Linda Lomahaftewa (born 1947) is a Hopi and Choctaw printmaker, painter, and educator living in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Background
Linda J. Lomahaftewa was born July 3, 1947, in
She attended a strict mission boarding school in 1961 but transferred to
Artwork
Dawn Reno writes of Linda's work that, "She unites the ancient Indian world with the contemporary in her modernistic paintings and has done a series of abstract landscapes which are considered the most powerful in her body of work."[3] Of her own art, she writes that her "imagery comes from being Hopi and remembering shapes and colors from ceremonies and from landscape. I associate a special power and respect, a sacredness, with these colors and shapes, and this carries over into my work."[5]
Although best known for her printmaking, Ribbon Shirt, her contribution to the major traveling exhibit, Indian Humor, is a typical contemporary ribbon shirt bedecked with an array of medals, buttons, and award ribbons from various Native American art shows.[6]
In response to viewing the retrospective exhibition of Lomahaftewa's work, The Moving Land: 60+ Years of Art by Linda Lomahaftewa, art writer Michael Abatemarco observed, "The landscape orientation is an ever-present aspect, as is a collage-like use of representational imagery. The show includes rare pieces from the start of her career, like an untitled acrylic photo transfer from the late 1960s that shows the unmistakable likeness of Beatles drummer Ringo Star amidst a confluence of abstract shapes and lines in liquid movement. But a clear division between the swarming shapes and an open upper portion, where more figures take on less vibrant and more corporeal form than those in the lower portion of the composition, suggests the separation of earth and sky."[7]
Career and honors
She has participated in innumerable group and solo exhibits including those at the American Indian Contemporary Art gallery in San Francisco; the Heard Museum in Phoenix; the American Indian Community House in New York City; and the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian in Santa Fe.[8]
Via Gambaro Gallery, which was launched by Retha Walden Gambaro and Stephen Gambaro to spotlight contemporary Native American artists, included Lomahaftewa's work in its 1980 National American Indian Women's Art Show.[9]
She was listed in the 8th Edition of the
Linda began teaching at Sonoma State University and later at the University of California, Berkeley.[citation needed] In 1976, she accepting a position teaching two-dimensional studio arts at the Institute of American Indian Arts, where she taught for more than forty years before retiring.[2]
"I'm happy that I'm recognized as a Native woman artist," she was quoted as saying. "And that I'm still doing work after all this time. A lot of people give up."[2]
Linda Lomahaftewa was selected as an Institute of American Indian Arts Artist-in-Residence in the autumn of 2020. As a safety measure, the college arranged a studio for the artist off-campus at Vital Spaces to reduce exposure risks of COVID-19. She produced a new work during the residency, many of which were included in her retrospective exhibition at the
Linda Lomahaftewa was a participant in the Smithsonian Archives of American Art Pandemic Oral History Project in September 2020. The oral history series recorded responses to the global pandemic across the American art world. Conducted virtually, the Pandemic Oral History Project featured eighty-five short-form interviews with a diverse group of artists, teachers, curators, and administrators, including Linda Lomahaftewa.[11]
Personal
Linda has a son, Logan L. Slock, and a daughter, Tatiana Lomahaftewa Singer, who is a curator of contemporary Native arts. Her brother, the late Dan Lomahaftewa (1951–2005), was also a celebrated artist.[12] Her first cousins, Roger and Marcus Amerman are internationally known Choctaw beadworkers.
Notable exhibitions
- 2021: The Moving Land: 60+ Years of Art by Linda Lomahaftewa, IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM.[13]
- 2012: Low-Rez: Native American Lowbrow Art, Eggman and Walrus Art Emporium, Santa Fe, NM[14]
Public collections
- Heard Museum[citation needed]
- Marcus Amerman[citation needed]
- Museum of Contemporary Native Arts[citation needed]
- Millicent Rogers Museum[citation needed]
- Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian[citation needed]
Notes
- ^ "Linda (Linda Joyce Slock) Lomahaftewa - Biography". www.askart.com. Retrieved 1 August 2021.
- ^ a b c Indyke, Dottie. Linda Lomahaftewa. Southwestern Art. (retrieved 7 April 2009)
- ^ a b Reno, p. 102
- ^ Bates, p. 108
- ISBN 9780803210370.
- ^ Bates, p. 60
- ^ Abatemarco, Michael (12 March 2021). "The lay of the land: Artist Linda Lomahaftewa". Santa Fe New Mexican. Retrieved 2021-03-26.
- ^ Bates, 108-9
- ^ Bisgyer-Lauer, M (editor), National American Indian Women's Art Show: NAIWAS, August 3-September 30, 1980, Via Gambaro Gallery,1980
- ^ "Linda Lomahaftewa and the Moving Land". Southwest Contemporary. 2021-03-03. Retrieved 2021-03-26.
- ^ Archives, the (2020-11-27). "Pandemic Oral History Project". www.aaa.si.edu. Retrieved 2021-03-26.
- ^ Dan Viets Lomahaftewa (1951-2005). Ask Art. (retrieved 7 April 2009)
- ^ "The Moving Land: 60+ Years of Art by Linda Lomahaftewa > Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA)". Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA). Retrieved 2021-03-26.
- ^ Native American Artists go Lowbrow in Low-Rez, Santa Fe.com, accessed 8-12-2012
References
- Bates, Sara, curator. Indian Humor. San Francisco: American Indian Contemporary Arts, 1995. ISBN 1-887427-00-7.
- Reno, Dawn. Contemporary Native American Artists. Brooklyn: Alliance Publishing, 1995. ISBN 0-9641509-6-4.
- Farris, Phoebe (1999). Women artists of color : a bio-critical sourcebook to 20th century artists in the Americas. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. pp. 36. OCLC 40193578.
External links
- Artist's Website
- Indyke, Dottie. Linda Lomahaftewa. Southwest Art
- Linda Lomahaftewa, Vision Project, by Jennifer C. Vigil
- Oral History Interview with Linda Lomahaftewa