Fragments of Symbolism and Landscapes: Recent Work by Dan Namingha

This exhibition presents a selection of seven paintings and six works on paper by Native American artist Dan Namingha (b. 1950), whose work synthesizes central themes of Tewa-Hopi culture and techniques of abstraction. In the works on display, Namingha combines Southwest landscapes, weather motifs, color schemes and Kachina images with typically non-traditional and nonrepresentational styles of abstract expressionism, allowing carefully guarded glimpses of the ritual and symbolism of his people. Fragments of Symbolism and Landscapes: Recent Work by Dan Namingha is the artist’s first exhibition in a major museum in the Northeast.

The exhibition has been organized as part of the Fogg Art Museum’s three-year project to conceive anew the curatorship of American Art, funded by the Henry Luce Foundation. Additional cooperation and support for the exhibition and related events are provided by Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, and the Harvard University Native American Program.