CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 11/4/2021

November is Native American Heritage Month!

"Untitled (Squares)" (1968), by Cherokee artist Lloyd Henri "Kiva" New, is reproduced from Action Abstraction Redefined: Modern Native Art, the first major publication analyzing modern Native American art inspired by Abstract Expressionism, Color Field and Hard–edge painting from the mid–1940s through the 1970s. Published by the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts in Santa Fe, this 148-page hardcover features work by more than thirty artists of many different tribes. "Indian art can be projected into the future," New said in 1962, "by a willingness to consider the evolution of new forms, the adoption of new technological methods, and the fact that new incentives for expression by the individual must fill the void of inertia in Indian groups or tribal forces, in the rapidly changing Indian world."