Yupkoyvi 6 , 2024
UV cured ink on collaged dibond panels in artist's frame
58 x 58 x 2 in.
Edition of 2
Disaster #1, 2024
Silkscreen on Canvas
50 x 60 in.
Disaster Series
My Disaster series depicts a pyrocumulonimbus cloud that occurred during New Mexico’s largest forest fire on record, the Hermits Peak fire, which burned over a period of five months and engulfed 341,000 acres in the north central part of the state. A pyrocumulonimbus cloud is a large anvil shaped storm cloud that forms above an extreme source of heat such as a wildfire, nuclear explosion, or volcanic eruption.
These large format works showcase the pyrocumulonimbus cloud as the central image. The cloud is depicted in different states of growth over the course of one day. For this series I chose to silkscreen the photo images onto canvas. Each image and coloration are unique and explore the Air Quality Index color chart to dictate the color palette. The air quality index color runs from green (safe level) to purple and maroon (extremely unsafe).
Clouds have symbolically been sacred to the Hopi and Tewa people; they provide rain and life to our arid climate. We have ceremonies tied specifically to cloud and rain dances. These ceremonies ensure a cyclical balance of moisture to the region. The cloud in this work represents the change in our planet and a shift in that balance.
Disaster #2, 2024
Silkscreen on Canvas
50 x 55 in.
Disaster #3, 2024
Silkscreen on Canvas
50 x 66 in.
Disaster #4, 2024
Silkscreen on Canvas
50 x 66 in.
Disaster #5, 2024
Silkscreen on Canvas
50 x 66 in.
Disaster #6, 2024
Silkscreen on Canvas
50 x 66 in.
Disaster #7, 2024
Silkscreen on Canvas
50 x 66 in.
Yupkoyvi 5, 2023
Silkscreen on shaped panel
40 x 58 x 1.5 in.
Michael Namingha’s Yupkoyvi series depicts the sacred ancestral lands that make up the present day Chaco Canyon. As the 2020 global pandemic began, the artist canceled a trip to New York, opting to return to the spiritual site of his Puebloan and Hopi ancestors. In the two screen prints, Namingha overlays multiple perspectives, reflecting the sense of temporal dislocation and disorientation that was only heightened by lockdowns. In 2014, NASA scientists discovered a massive pinkish cloud of methane, a product of the region’s oil producers, a spectral presence that looms over the land, and colors the artist’s works. The otherworldly color of the compositions is strangely beautiful, even as it portends a dying planet. Dark clay from a familial site is embedded into the works’ surfaces, linking the artist’s practice to his forebears’ generations of work in clay.
Yupkoyvi 4, 2023
Acrylic, enamel, and acetate powder ink silkscreen with hand applied soil on shaped panel
39 x 40 x 1.5 in.
Yupkoyvi 3, 2023
Silkscreen on shaped panel
40 x 52 x 1.5 in.
Yupkoyvi 2, 2023
Silkscreen on shaped panel
33 x 40 x 1.5 in.
Yupkoyvi, 2023
Acrylic and enamel ink silkscreen with hand applied sand on shaped panel
32 x 68 x 1.5 in.
Altered Landscape 18, 2024
Dye Sublimation Print on Shaped Aluminum
44 x 55 x 1 in.
Edition of 2
Altered Landscape 15, 2022
C-Print Face Mounted to Shaped Acrylic
25 x 50 x 1 in.
Edition of 2
Altered Landscape 14, 2022
C-Print Face Mounted to Shaped Acrylic
25 x 50 x 1 in.
Edition of 2
Untitled (April 14, 2020 12:59 PM), 2021
Digital C-Print Face Mounted to Shaped Acrylic
20” x 28” x 1”
Edition of 3
Many artists and individuals have their “Covid” period. Stories, images, or artistic output that we needed to get through that period in our lives. Covid touched and continues to influence the world we live in. For me, the virus touched close to home early in the pandemic. I was scheduled to go to New York City the first week of March 2020 to celebrate in festivities with some close friends. At the airport in Albuquerque, on the day I was scheduled to board a flight for New York I decided to cancel my trip. I had started to read the various news reports about this new virus that was spreading quickly and did not feel comfortable putting myself at the epicenter of where the reports were coming from. I turned the car around and went home. I messaged my friends to tell them I was not going to make it. Two weeks later multiple people that had attended the event I was going for had fallen ill with covid and the two people I was going to see were dead four weeks later. I had no idea how to process all of this and I was not alone. Grieving at a distance was the new normal. Spring had sprung and it was the most unusual spring I had to date. I noticed the flowers in our garden with a newfound detail and acknowledgment. The flowers were so beautiful but were a fleeting beauty that I knew in a short time would be gone. These flowers represent my relationships with my recently lost friends. They each brought something beautiful and special to my life. The intersecting lines are our lives crossing paths. It is easy to take for granted our relationships and friendships, but they can be gone in an instant, a reminder to enjoy those we care for while they are here.
Untitled (April 15, 2020 10:58 AM), 2021
Digital C-Print Face Mounted to Shaped Acrylic
20” x 28” x 1”
Edition of 3
Chaco (Yupkoyvi), 2021
Digital C-Print Face Mounted to Shaped Acrylic
Edition of 3
28” x 28” x 1”
Chaco 2 (Yupkoyvi), 2021
Digital C-Print Face Mounted to Shaped Acrylic
Edition of 3
24” x 28” x 1”
Chaco 3 (Yupkoyvi), 2021
Digital C-Print Face Mounted to Shaped Acrylic
Edition of 3
15” x 27” x 1”
Chaco 4 (Yupkoyvi), 2021
Digital C-Print Face Mounted to Shaped Acrylic
Edition of 3
20” x 28” x 1”
Yupkoyvi, 2023
Silkscreen and enamel ink with hand-applied sand on shaped panel
32 x 68 x 1.5 in.
Yupkoyvi 2, 2023
Silkscreen and enamel ink on shaped panel
33 x 40 x 1.5 in.
Altered Landscape 11, 2021
Digital C-Print Face Mounted to Shaped Acrylic
Edition of 3
42” x 27” x 1”
Altered Landscape 12, 2021
Digital C-Print Face Mounted to Shaped Acrylic
Edition of 3
26” x 38” x 1”
Altered Landscape 13, 2021
Digital C-Print Face Mounted to Shaped Acrylic
Edition of 3
20” x 40” x 1”
Altered Landscape #1
Digital C-Print Face-Mounted to Shaped Acrylic
35” x 35” x 1”
Edition of 3
Copyright 2019
Michael Namingha’s (Tewa/Hopi) Altered Landscape series are abstract, photography-based works that juxtapose colored geometric shapes against landscapes of New Mexico. The compositions are mounted to shaped plexiglass, creating the illusion of three-dimensional works.
Altered Landscapes addresses the environmental impact of the oil industry around New Mexico’s Chaco Canyon, a national historic park sacred to the ancestral Puebloans; and the Black Place, Navajo Nation’s Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness. More than 20,000 oil and gas wells are in operation on federally leased land across the 7,500 square miles large San Juan Basin. While 316,000 acres within a 10-mile radius around Chaco Canyon are protected from oil, gas and other mineral extraction, an overground pipeline runs through the Black Place. While the risks of methane waste and related pollution have not been extensively studied, they include health conditions such as respiratory ailments. According to the Environmental Defense Fund, these issues are hitting Indigenous communities particularly hard. While other artists deal with these themes head-on, Namingha’s work is in contrast non-confrontational, even quiet, inviting viewers to contemplate the devastating effects of the oil and gas industries on ancestral lands.
Altered Landscape #2
Digital C-Print Face Mounted to Shaped Acrylic
Edition of 3
20” x 14” x 1”
Copyright 2019
Altered Landscape #3
Digital C-Print Face Mounted to Shaped Acrylic
Edition of 3
20” x 18.5” x 1”
Copyright 2019
Altered Landscape #4
Digital C-Print Face Mounted to Shaped Acrylic
19” x 17.5” x 1”
Copyright 2019
Altered Landscape #5
Digital C-Print Face Mounted to Shaped Acrylic
Edition of 3
17” x 20” x 1”
Copyright 2019
Altered Landscape #6
Digital C-Print Face Mounted to Shaped Acrylic
Edition of 3
19.5” x 17.75” x 1
Copyright 2019
Altered Landscape #7
Digital C-Print Face Mounted to Shaped Acrylic
20” x 20” x 1”
Unique
Copyright 2019
Altered Landscape #8
Digital C-Print Face Mounted to Shaped Acrylic
Unique
20” x 20” x 1”
Copyright 2019
Altered Landscape #9
Digital C-Print Face Mounted to Shaped Acrylic
20” x 21” x 1”
Edition of 3
Copyright 2019
Black Place #1
Digital C-Print Face-Mounted to Shaped Plexiglas
28” x 40” x 1”
Edition of 3
Copyright 2019
BP9
Digital C-Print Face Mounted to Shaped Acrylic
Edition of 3
28” x 38” x 1”
Copyright 2018
BP10
Digital C-Print Face Mounted to Shaped Acrylic
Edition of 3
28” x 30” x 1”
Copyright 2018
BP11
Digital C-Print Face Mounted to Shaped Acrylic
Edition of 3
27” x 28” x 1”
Copyright 2018
BP12
Digital C-Print Face Mounted to Shaped Acrylic
Edition of 3
31.5” x 36” x 1”
Copyright 2018
BP13
Digital C-Print Face Mounted to Shaped Acrylic
Edition of 3
42” x 22” x 1”
Copyright 2018
BP14
Digital C-Print Face Mounted to Shaped Acrylic
Edition of 3
31” x 19.5” x 1”
Copyright 2018
BP7
Digital C-Print Face Mounted to Shaped Plexiglas
Edition of 2
30" x 30"
Copyright 2017
Black Place, 2017
Digital C-print Face mounted to Shaped Plexiglas
31" x 19"
Edition of 2
BP8
Digital C-Print Face-Mounted to Shaped Plexiglas
Edition of 2
43" x 28.5"
Copyright 2018
BP4
Digital C-Print Face Mounted to Shaped Plexiglas
40" x 40"
Edition of 2
Copyright 2017
BP5
Digital C-Print Face-Mounted to Shaped Plexiglas
20" x 25"
Edition of 2
Copyright 2017
BP6
Digital C-Print Face-Mounted to Shaped Plexiglas
32" x 30"
Edition of 2
Copyright 2017
BP3, 2017
Digital C-print Face-mounted to Shaped Plexiglas
19" x 38"
Edition of 2
BP1, 2017
Digital C-print Face-mounted to Plexiglas
Edition of 2
23" x 27"
Grand Canyon
Digital C-Print Face Mounted to Shaped Plexiglas
Edition of 2
36" x 35.25" (approx.)
copyright 2016
GC2
Digital C-Print Face Mounted to Shaped Plexiglas
Edition of 2
41" x 29" approx.
Copyright 2016
Galisteo Basin II
Digital C-Print Face Mounted to Shaped Plexiglas
Edition of 2
38" x 38" approx.
Copyright 2016
AB
Digital C-Print Face Mounted to Shaped Plexiglas
Edition of 2
23" x 28" approx.
Copyright 2016
ABIQUIU
Digital C-Print Face Mounted to Shaped Plexiglas
Edition of 2
30" x 32"
Copyright 2017
SHIBUYA 1
Digital C-Print Face Mounted to Shaped Plexiglas
Edition of 2
22" x 44"
Copyright 2017
SHIBUYA 2
Digital C-Print Face Mounted to Shaped Plexiglas
Edition of 2
33" x 40"
Copyright 2017
VOTE
Archival Pigment Print on Hahnamuhle Paper
30” x 30”
Edition of 3
Copyright 2020
BIG LOVE
Powder Coated Aluminum
56” x 41” x 1”
Edition of 2
Copyright 2019
YOU ARE HERE
Powder Coated Aluminum
38” x 50” x 1”
Edition of 3
Copyright 2019
LUST
Archival Pigment Print on Hahanmuhle Paper
Edition of 3
30" x 30"
Copyright 2016
LOVE (Red)
Archival Pigment Print on Hahnemühle Paper
Edition of 3
30" x 30"
Copyright 2015
LOVE (Black)
Archival Pigment Print on Hahnemühle Paper
Edition of 3
30" x 30"
Copyright 2015
FRESH (Black)
Archival Pigment Print on Hahnemühle Paper
Edition of 3
30" x 30"
Copyright 2015
DOPE (Black)
Archival Pigment Print on Hahnemühle Paper
Edition of 3
30" x 30"
Copyright 2015
NO
Archival Pigment Print on Hahnemühle Paper
Edition of 3
30" x 30"
Copyright 2015
YES
Archival Pigment Print on Hahnemühle Paper
Edition of 3
30" x 30"
Copyright 2015
KISS ME
Archival Pigment Print on Hahnemühle Paper
Edition of 3
30" x 30"
Copyright 2015
Two Are Better Than One
Archival Pigment Print on Hahnemühle Paper
Edition of 3
30" x 30"
Copyright 2015
Amerikana 2
Archival Pigment Print on Paper
Edition of 3
30" x 40"
2014
Amerikana 1
Archival Pigment Print on Paper
Edition of 3
30" x 40"
2014
Chama
Archival Pigment Print on Paper
Edition of 3
30" x 44"
Copyright 2014
Galisteo Basin #3
Archival Pigment Print on Paper
Edition of 3
30" x 30"
Copyright 2014
Galisteo Basin #4
Archival Pigment Print on Paper
Edition of 3
30" x 30"
Copyright 2014
Galisteo Basin #2
Pigment Print Mounted on Acrylic Plate
20" x 30"
Copyright 2014
Galisteo Basin #1
Pigment Print Mounted on Acrylic Plate
30" x 44"
Copyright 2014
Abiquiu X
Archival Pigment Print Mounted on Acrylic Plate
Edition of 2
12" x 12"
Michael Namingha Copyright 2014
