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Turquoise Tortoise Gallery Features Native American Artist Stan Natchez
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Sedona’s Turquoise Tortoise Gallery will feature the paintings of Stan Natchez. through the month of June. Natchez took a circuitous route to his successful career as a full-time artist: He earned a bachelor’s and master’s degree before teaching humanities for 10 years, then serving as an editor at Native Peoples Magazine. Always a creative child, it was his participation in Native American dances that led him to painting. While performing traditional dances throughout Europe and the U.S. the future artist developed a fine eye for color and composition from the beadwork he created for the regalia he wore. Natchez is a California Indian (ShoShoni/Paiute of Tatavian descent) and credits this artistic medium with building in him a stronger sense of cultural self-esteem. "I feel fortunate for having been raised in the city because of the perspective it gave me on modern life,” Natchez observes. “However, without an awareness of our traditional heritage, we as Native Americans have no identity. By taking the best of both worlds, the modern and the traditional, we are better able to find balance in our lives." The philosophies and techniques of these two worlds have allowed Natchez to achieve a complex harmony in his work - with a distinctive Neo-Pop style. His unique multimedia paintings may incorporate a range of items from beadwork to bottle caps in their design. Images are conveyed with the two-dimensional look of Native American “ledger art” even as the artist’s subjects ask viewers to look deeper at that which is represented. By overlaying many of these images on actual U.S. currency the representation of ideas grows more compellingly complex. “When I paint the dollar bill,” the artist explains, “I’m saying that the dollar bill is a symbol of the world we live in. When you go to the store, what do you need to buy something? You need money, right? In the 1700s and 1800s Indians painted on deerskin, buffalo or elk hides. And if you wanted something, hides were your money. So the modern-day hide is the dollar bill.” Natchez feels strongly about communicating contemporary Native American philosophy that has been purged of any romantic or stereotypical idealism; his thought-provoking Native American art undeniably meets this criterion. Currently, Natchez is Editorial Advisor and Education Coordinator for Native Peoples Magazine. A Sedona Gallery Association “Art of Gold” event. For further information, contact: Turquoise Tortoise Gallery, located in Hozho Center in the heart of “Gallery Row,” 431 Highway 179, Sedona. Call 928-282-2262 or visit www.turqtortsedona.com. Open daily: 10-6 Mon-Sat, 11-5 Sun. |
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