September, October 2017

Hopi silver overlay buckle by Anthony Honahnie

  Replenished 

As we bid farewell to high summer September brings its own rewards. Apples, pears and corn are abundant and at Rainmaker Gallery we are fully replenished from our annual pilgrimage to the Santa Fe Indian Market. 

If jewellery is your passion and turquoise is your colour, now is the perfect time to treat yourself to a beautiful necklace or a simple pair of traditional slab earrings.

This year we bring you our biggest ever range of Hopi silver overlay jewellery by Hopi elder Anthony Honahnie. He has made, exclusively for us, a magnificent belt buckle, pendants, rings and bracelets for both men and women, and of course earrings.

Direct from the hands of Zuni fetish carver Jimmy Yawakia, we present an array of power animals, from antelopes to zebras - seriously, we actually have a zebra. I know, they are not indigenous to Zuni but Jimmy Carved one anyway.

New stock will be added to the website over the coming weeks. If you can't wait that long just call into the gallery Tuesday - Friday 10-6pm, Saturday 10-5pm.

Indian Perfume, oil on canvas by Yatika Fields

Ceremony

On the Osage reservation in Oklahoma June is a month of intensive ceremony. As a traditional Osage dancer Yatika Starr Fields plays an important role in those sacred rituals. The paintings in his current exhibition at Rainmaker Gallery were all created during June of this year. His powerful canvases are an immediate expression of those intense ceremonial experiences. The painting depicted above, 'Indian Perfume' pulses with the rhythm, flow and sway of the dances and features elements of dance regalia. Notice the adorned cloth bundles which are filled with a fragrant flower called Indian Perfume. This flower blooms in June and the bundles are pinned to the dancer's clothing. See more of Yatika's mesmerising

canvases

on our website.

  Exhibition news: 

Our glorious summer exhibition by 

YATIKA STARR FIELDS

opened in July, a whole month later than usual. As the gallery then closed for much of August we have decided to extend the exhibition until late October. That means there is still time for you to enjoy these joyous paintings.

Chris Pappan

Alongside our main exhibition we are also showing a selection of impressive '21st Century Ledger Drawings' by

Chris Pappan

(Kanza, Osage, Sioux). Ledger art emerged as an art form amongst Plains tribes at the beginning of the reservation period. Chris Pappan draws with graphite pencil on antique ledger paper. He occasionally applies map collage to remind people that American cities are built on Indian land and that "

We are still here

". The work of Chris Pappan is currently celebrated in a solo exhibition at the

Field Museum

in Chicago.

British Library acquisition

Chris Pappan's wife Debra Yepa-Pappan is celebrating the

 by the British Library of her brilliant piece 'Ceci n'est pas une Indienne'. This digital print on antique ledger was purchased from our spring exhibition '

We Are Native Women

'. Debra's work is very affordable and is available to

purchase

from our website or in the gallery throughout the year. 

Video

If you missed our fabulous spring exhibition here is a short

video tour

around the gallery, taken by Gabriel Abeyta with music by

Andy Pink

.