Internationally recognized artist, Ed Singer, presents his opening exhibit, Yellow Narrative, this evening at the Cortez Cultural Center.
His partner, Sonja Horoshko, said on her Facebook page that his narrative with yellow evokes the Southwest.
“I’ve heard him say about his proficient use of the color that he is always informed by the old European master painters and how they mix and apply yellow,” she said in her Facebook page.
She said that his work, most notably with the exhibition’s pieces, will be an influence for younger painters who could be educated about the yellow in Singer’s portfolios that they will study in the future.
According to the Bluff Arts Festival, Singer’s art merges old-master technique, political narrative and Native American driven substance.
The Navajo artist was born in 1951 and raised on the Navajo Reservation in Gray Mountain, Arizona. From there, he studied art at Southern Utah State College and Northern Arizona University.
After his education, he established himself as a full-time artist. As stated by the Adobe Gallery, his work often depicts Indigenous people, alone in the painting, in a contemporary environment. The compositions evoke the clash between traditional Navajo culture and Euro American influence.
“My portfolio offers an opportunity for Diné to participate in our own pride, to see ourselves as we are today – alive, thriving, secure in our Navajo way of being,” he said that is stated on the Bluff Arts Festival website.
Many of his pieces have been displayed in private and public collections such as at the Museum of New Mexico Albuquerque, Louis B. Leaky Foundation Collection, Wheelwright Museum, Heard Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, University of New Mexico Museum and the Roswell Museum and Art Center.
The reception is this evening, Oct. 11, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. and the exhibit will be up throughout the rest of October at the Cortez Cultural Center at 25 North Market, Cortez.
