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Left: Chrstine Nofchissey McHorse, Nautilus 2006, micaceous clay, 19 x 11"
Patrick Dean Hubbell and Christine Nofchissey McHorse
Below: Portrait of Christine Nofchissey McHorse in her studio, ca. 2013.
Navajo artists at Peters Projects
Courtesy Andrea Ashkie
by Ja s on St r y kow s ki
The Peters Projects Gallery will welcome two solo exhibitions from Native artists for SWAIA Indian Market this year. Patrick Dean Hubbell (Navajo) updates traditional Navajo sand painting while Christine Nofchissey McHorse (Navajo) adds her own flair to Pueblo-style pottery. McHorse originally hails from Arizona and attended IAIA. She married a man from Taos Pueblo and learned traditional pottery skills from his grandmother. Branching out from what she had been taught, McHorse began blending the glittery, micaceous Taos pottery with modern shapes and a reductive firing technique to produce black, gently curving sculptures that retained the mica’s sparkle. Some of these pieces have then been cast in bronze. For her work, McHorse has won major awards at Indian Market for both pottery and sculpture. Peters Projects will host an unveiling of one of her bronzes and an exhibition of pottery. Patrick Dean Hubbell was raised on the Navajo Reservation and educated at Arizona State University where he studied fine art. His current work draws from his Navajo upbringing as well as his formal education. As he explains, the inspiration behind his art is “making a correlation between my own way of working and drawing on the traditional way of Navajo sand painting.” To prepare for the exhibit, Hubbell traveled throughout the Navajo Nation gathering materials for the paintings, while his wife documented the process with photographs and video. The finished products will be oil on canvas. “It’s a different series of works that are actually rendered with earth pigments that are collected in different parts of the Navajo Nation,” says Hubbell. “I used them to make my own paint like the old European masters did.” Double show: Earth: Untitled, Patrick Dean Hubbell and The Micaceous Ceramics of Christine Nofchissey McHorse Reception August 12, 5–7 pm Q&A with Patrick Dean Hubbell August 13, 11 am, Peters Projects, 1011 Paseo de Peralta, petersprojects.com Left: Christine Nofchissey McHorse, Vesuvius 2006, micaceous clay, 16 x 11"
Right: Patrick Dean Hubbell, It is Written in the Stars, acrylic on canvas, 48 x 48" 80
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Above: Partick Dean Hubbell, Her Invigorating Tendencies, oil on canvas, 62 x 66"
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