GRIMM’S FAIRY TALES, A WORLD OF VACATIONS, 2013
Found record album books, hand bound prints and collage with printed artist ideas pages inserted, 10.5 x 12 x .75 inches, varied edition of 4. $750
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EVEN HEAT LIKE, MEXICANA, NOBODY KNOWS, 2013
Found record album books, hand bound prints and collage with printed artist ideas pages inserted, 10.5 x 12 x .75 inches, varied edition of 4. $750
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Artist Ideas Book, 2014
Handbound book, sewn binding, 100 artist ideas printed on Ingres paper, fold-out diagram and small relief print made from 3D printed plate of drawing, 5 x 3 x .25 inches, edition of 29. $500


   

Statement

I am a mark maker and I am a story maker. I narrate tribal stories changing the context but the content remains much the same and humor makes room to slip in the truth. We have all come from tribes at some point and our cultural stories vary but aren’t so dissimilar.

Biography

Neal Ambrose-Smith, descendent of the Flathead Salish tribe of Montana, is a contemporary Native American painter, sculptor, printmaker, and educator. His work is included in the collections of many national and international museums and institutions, including the New York Public Library, the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, Galerie municipale d’art contemporain in Chamalières, France, and Hongik University in Seoul, Korea. He received his BA from the University of Northern Colorado and MFA from the University of New Mexico.
Neal Ambrose-Smith Website