Weaving Memory: Monotypes by Melanie Yazzie, presented in conjunction with Navajo Weaving: Diamonds, Dreams, Landscapes, is an exhibition of prints by artist Melanie Yazzie. The prints are inspired by the textiles from the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History's Joe Ben Wheat Collection and by memories from Yazzie's childhood with her grandmother Thelma Baldwin, a weaver in Wide Ruins, Arizona.
Baldwin wove in the Wide Ruins style, which is soft and quiet compared with the monotypes that Yazzie produces today. The prints in this exhibition are loud with color, with bright, geometrical forms against a soft background of color or clear white. They speak of quiet moments between a grandmother and granddaughter that are often not documented in Yazzie's work. The pictorial rugs in the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History's collection influenced Yazzie's creative process, as reflected in the stencils she cut for her monotypes.
About the Artist:
Melanie Yazzie is Associate Professor of Art at the University of Colorado in Boulder (faculty profile) who works in a wide range of media, including printmaking, painting, sculpting, ceramics, and installation art. She has exhibited her works nationally and internationally and her works have been featured in many museum collections worldwide.
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Background image: They Help Us by Melanie Yazzie 2009 ©
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