Imogene Goodshot Arquero is an Oglala Lakota beadwork artist from South Dakota, who lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Personal
Imogene Jessie Goodshot Arquero is the great-great-granddaughter of the Oglala Lakota war chief, Crazy Horse (c. 1840–1877). She is married to painter Dominic Arquero (Cochiti Pueblo).
Art career
Imogene Arquero is known for her beadwork, in which she combines historic techniques with forms from mainstream culture such as tennis shoes and baseball caps. She began her career as beadwork artist, working in classical Northern Plains styles before experimenting with new forms.
The artist taught "Traditional Techniques" at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe in the 1970s.
Arquero participated in Women of Sweetgrass, Cedar and Sage, a 1985 traveling exhibition of contemporary Native women artists curated by Harmony Hammond and Jaune Quick-to-See Smith. She has also exhibited in Santa Fe Indian Market.
Public collections
Arquero's work is held by the Fenimore Art Museum, among other institutions.
External links
- Imogene Jessie Goodshot Arquero, artwork at New Museum, New York
References
- "Fine Art and Outsiders: Attacking the Barriers". The New York Times. 9 February 1996. Retrieved 6 June 2017.
- ^ "Native Arts & Culture « Comment Page 1". greenfiretimes.com. Retrieved 6 June 2017.
- ^ "Imogene Gooshot". New Mexico Digital Collections. University of New Mexico. Retrieved 23 October 2019.
- "Fort McDowell Indian Art Show draws crowds". Retrieved 6 June 2017.
- Charlotte Streifer Rubinstein (1990). American women sculptors: a history of women working in three dimensions. G.K. Hall. ISBN 978-0-8161-8732-4.
- Lucy R. Lippard (1990). Mixed blessings: new art in a multicultural America. Pantheon Books. ISBN 978-0-394-57759-3.
- Lincoln, Kenneth (1993). Indi'n Humor: Bicultural Play in Native America. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 142. ISBN 0-19-506887-4.
- "Fenimore Art Museum". collections.fenimoreartmuseum.org. Retrieved 6 June 2017.
- Living people
- Native American beadworkers
- American beadworkers
- Women beadworkers
- Artists from South Dakota
- Artists from Santa Fe, New Mexico
- 20th-century American artists
- 20th-century American women artists
- 21st-century American artists
- 21st-century American women artists
- Institute of American Indian Arts faculty
- Oglala women artists
- Oglala artists
- American women academics
- 20th-century Native American women
- 20th-century Native American artists
- 21st-century Native American women
- 21st-century Native American artists
- Native American academics