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Cloudfoot Quivira

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Paintings as performance  in relation to volcanic landscapes: footprints on lava. Watercolors and oil sketches and canvas based works. Ricochet between the Pacific ring of fire and midcontinent ocean-born prairie and plains of Turtle Island. Quivira was the name conquistadors called it,  sites of hellish colonial suffering and imaginary gold.  Lands brought back despite and through the scatter zones.  Paintings from this series are in the collections of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, and the Great Plains Art Collection, University of Nebraska- Lincoln.  They have been shown in permanent collection curated exhibitions at these museums since 2005.