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Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, 'Charlo Series #28', 1987. Pastel and charcoal on paper, 76.5 x 56.9cm. Courtesy the artist and Stephen Friedman Gallery, London and New York. Photo: Olympia Shannon.
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Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, 'Charlo Series #29', 1987. Pastel and charcoal on paper, 76.5 x 56.9cm. Courtesy the artist and Stephen Friedman Gallery, London and New York. Photo: Olympia Shannon.
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Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, 'Bang', 2002. Acrylic on canvas, 121.9 x 91.4cm. Courtesy the artist and Stephen Friedman Gallery, London and New York. Photo: Christopher Burke.
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Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, 'Crop Circles', 2003. Mixed media on canvas, 91.4 x 61cm. Courtesy the artist and Stephen Friedman Gallery, London and New York. Photo: Christopher Burke
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Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, 'Petroglyph Park', 1987. Pastel on paper, 76.1 x 56.4cm. Courtesy the artist and Stephen Friedman Gallery, London and New York.
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Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, 'I See Red: Give Me That Old Time Religion', 1996. Mixed media on canvas, 142.2 x 106.7cm. Courtesy the artist and Stephen Friedman Gallery, London and New York. Photo: Christopher Burke.
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Stephen Friedman Gallery is pleased to present 'Rooted in Memory;, the first UK solo exhibition of Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (1940–2025, citizen of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation). A groundbreaking visual artist as well as a prominent curator and activist, Smith paved the way for contemporary Indigenous artists over her remarkable fifty-year career. Working across painting, drawing, print and sculpture, her practice blends abstraction and figuration, reinterpreting motifs from canonical American painting to reframe historical narratives and foreground the Native American experience. A room of the exhibition is devoted to the Tierra Madre paintings, the last body of work which...