At first glance, the organic shapes and colors in Melanie A. Yazzie’s art evoke a dreamlike world filled with fanciful animals, full-skirted women, flitting birds and butterflies, and plants in a fertile symbology all her own. On closer inspection, the artist’s varied iconography invokes her Native American identity and personal experience. A member of the Navajo Nation (Diné), a longstanding matrilineal society, Yazzie puts what she carries deep within as an Indigenous woman into printmaking, painting, sculpting, ceramics, and installation art.
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