Melanie Yazzie Geographies of Memory

A 96 page exhibition catalogue with two essays, exhibition checklist, and numerous 4-color images, produced in conjunction with the UNM Art Museum's 2014 exhibition Melanie Yazzie: Geographies of Memory, curated by Lisa Tamiris Becker, Director, UNM Art Museum. Highlighting the art of printmaker and sculptor Melanie Yazzie, whose compelling works of layered images draw upon her rich Navajo/Diné heritage, Melanie Yazzie: Geographies of Memory includes examples of the artist's monotypes, woodblock prints, lithographs and etchings. A special body of Yazzie's recent paper-pulp prints with photolithographic elements, as well as selections of her large-scale steel sculptures and smaller works in bronze, are featured in the exhibition and catalogue along with a body of her recent gouache drawings. Yazzie's works enigmatically weave together geographic, cultural, and autobiographical images and referents, transporting the viewer into spaces and places of memory and imagination.