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Calling a series of paintings Red Peyote Works is asking to be misunderstood -- especially in New Mexico. Grant Hayunga acknowledges that.
For more than a century, a steady stream of artists have come here looking to Native American art for a connection to something grounded and real. Many have seen what they wanted to see and have understood little. Such artists have established an enduring formula of exploitation that involves titles that sound native.See the full content of this document
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Animist Magnetism
Red Peyote Works, a series of oil paintings and watercolors about animism, was influenced by two years Hayunga spent participating in Native American peyote ceremonies in Taos Pueblo, he said. But, he noted, his paintings b...
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