Dan Namingha
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Dan Namingha says his quest is to “transform the subject matter of Native American art and its customary realism into an abstract, almost minimal form.”
Namingha’s artistic journey has led him to combine his personal ideas and memories with the symbolism of his Hopi-Tewa culture, to translate the powerful geography of the Southwest through formal concepts of modern art and composition. His work often draws on the sacred traditions of his culture: the kachinas representing the spirit messengers, ancestors, and cloud people; the dualities of light and dark, of positive and negative; the passages between the everyday world and the spirit realm.
He loves working in a broad variety of media; his acrylic paintings are widely known, but he cast his first bronze in 1974, and sculpture remains a significant part of his work. Collage is another favorite medium, often including his own handmade papers.
