Iris Farm Traditional Cache
Sky Hook: c.o. no longer interested
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Alice Seely's mixed Indian, Spanish, and Anglo heritage reflects the rich cultural diversity of New Mexico. Seely is the step daughter of Navajo artist Ha-So-De (Narciso Abeyta), "The Gaugin of American Indian Art". Her maternal grandmothers, Eleanor Brownell and Alice Howland, came to Santa Fe from Philadelphia in the 1930s. Seely's paternal grandparents were from the small Spanish village of Guadalupita in Northern New Mexico and were descendents of San Juan and Comanche Indians. Her Great grandfather is pictured in the original Pony Express poster. Seely's brother and sister are recognized Navajo artists. Her biological father, William Warder, was a New Mexico muralist and landscape painter. Alice, who makes her home in Hondo, New Mexico, is a writer, painter, sculptor and jewelry designer. She shows her art in galleries in Santa Fe, Scottsdale, New York, Michigan and Florida. Her paintings are known for their flowing movement and dramatic bright colors. During her childhood and adolescence, Seely painted with her Navajo step-father who strongly influenced her palette and thematic content of her paintings. She also grew up in the company of Santa Fe artists Cyrus Baldridge, gustav Baumann and Josef Bakos; her style has elements reminiscent of traditional New Mexico painters of the 1930s and 40s. But, she says, her greatest influence has been her love of Southwest history, its landscape, its fantastic sunlight with ever changing shadows and the faces and character of her fellow New Mexicans. Her clay sculptures are stylistic, hand-built clay figures, painted with bright geometric patterns and designs. Her clay figures often have masks that represent Seely's personal struggle with a mixed cultural identity, something she shares in common with other "mixed heritage" people in New Mexico.
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