In the Future Map, 2021

Mixed media on canvas
© Jaune Quick-to-See Smith; courtesy the artist and Garth Greenan Gallery, New York.

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith has worked as an influential artist, curator, educator, and political activist for decades. Smith began her career in New Mexico in the mid-1970s. Like many artists of her generation, as well as those who have followed, she has a long-standing concern with the dispossession of Native lands. Part of the twelve-part series Indigenizing the Colonized US Map, In the Future Map features a map of the forty-eight contiguous states, rotated 90° and embellished with paint and collaged elements. Newspaper clippings referencing global warming sit alongside a reproduction of Eadweard Muybridge’s stop-motion sequence of a buffalo in motion (covering most of North Dakota), poignantly evoking the historical fate of many Native Americans.