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Random Search: Mining the Archives of Tamarind Institute
LOWERY STOKES SIMS in the workshop during her curatorial residency, 2017.
"This selection of work from the archives of Tamarind Institute can indeed be described as a free-wheeling exploration of images done over the last four decades of the Institute’s history." -Sims
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The exhibition Sims curated consists of Tamarind lithographs, organized into five groupings: Corpus Delicti, Personifications, Saints and Sinners, Intimacies, and Indian/ Not Indian.
CORPUS DELICTI
GEORGE MCNEIL, Philadelphia Woman, 1976. Four-color lithograph.
ALISON SAAR, Equinox, 2012. Five-color lithograph.
PERSONIFICATIONS
TOYIN OJIH ODUTOLA, Birmingham (right), 2014. Four-color lithograph with gold leaf.
ROBERT PRUITT, People’s Party II, 2014 . Two-color lithograph.
SAINTS AND SINNERS
ELLEN CHAVEZ DE LEITNER, Santa Cecilia, 1998. Four-color lithograph.
NICK ABDALLA, Ms. America, 1973 Four-color lithograph.
INTIMACIES
ROBERT COLESCOTT* Lock and Key (State 2), 1989. Multi-color lithographs.
LEON GOLUB, Combat, 1965. Lithograph.
The Tamarind Archive Collection, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque . Photo courtesy Margot Geist.
INDIAN/NOT INDIAN
CHRIS PAPPAN, Kansas Gold, 2013. Five-color lithograph.
H. C. WESTERMANN (American, 1922 – 1981) Untitled #14 (Big Red), 1968. Two-color lithograph.
The Tamarind Archive Collection, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque. Photo courtesy Margo Geist.
LESLEY DILL, Hummingbird Dress, 2013. Seven color lithograph with collaged three dimensional elements.
JAUNE QUICK-TO-SEE SMITH, Eye Candy, 2006. Seven-color lithograph.
Random Search: Mining the Archives of Tamarind Institute will be in the gallery through December 2018.
Photo by Robert Reck; courtesy Devendra Contractor.
Tamarind Institute, a division of the College of Fine Arts at The University of New Mexico, is a nonprofit center for fine art lithography that trains master printers and houses a professional collaborative workshop for guest artists.
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