Artist Joseph M. Sanchez
Title Dream Magic
Media acrylic and conte on canvas
Dated
2019
Size 10 x 8 in. / 25.4 x 20.3 cm.
Sold $650
Estimate $500 - $600
Notes
signed and dated lower centre; bears title gallery label verso; unframed
Provenance
Bearclaw Gallery, Edmonton, label verso; corporate collection, Calgary
Biographical Information
Joseph M. Sanchez ~ [b.1948] Canadian
Joseph Sanchez has a unique place in the Canadian First Nations art movement. Born and raised in Arizona, Joseph lived in Canada in the 1970’s and was a founding member of the Professional Native Indian Artists Association along-side Daphne Odjig, Alex Janvier, Norval Morrisseau and others. Known as both an artist and curator Joseph’s vast list of achievements include Director and Chief Curator of the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
'I call this work Grandmothers and Angels referring to the spirits that protect and guide us and to the elders who we must listen to in these times of great challenges.The power of the folding- twisting-moving lines is an illustration of dimensions that are a reality to indigenous man, recently being discovered by science. They speak of the shaman walking between the veils of reality and the spirit world. I dive uninhibited into the unknown forsaking the conscious for a glimpse of the energy and color that lies dormant in indigenous man.'
biography from Bearclaw Gallery, Edmonton