Namingha, Les - "Layers LXIV" Jar with Sikyatki Birds, Checker board
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Namingha, Les – “Layers LXIV” Jar with Sikyatki Birds, Checker board

9"w x 9.5"h

$ 16,000.00

Les Namingha is one of those potters who continues to defy expectations in his innovative clay art.  This jar is entitled “Layers LXIV.”  The shape of the jar has a high shoulder and short neck. The jar is painted with acrylic in layers.  Les said that it took him over a month to paint this jar!  The bottom layers have swirling lines that represent the Hopi migration pattern.  The next layer is a checkerboard pattern.  Finally there are overlapping Sikyatki inspired birds.  The birds are all in various colors and and the body of each consists of various traditional Hopi-Tewa designs.  There is an exceptional complexity to this jar in the painting, making it a bold and creative piece of art in clay.  The jar is signed, “Les Namingha”.  Once again Les creates such thoughtful work and challenges the viewer to find a deeper meaning in each piece!

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Les Namingha is one of those potters who continues to defy expectations in his innovative clay art.  This jar is entitled “Layers LXIV.”  The shape of the jar has a high shoulder and short neck. The jar is painted with acrylic in layers.  Les said that it took him over a month to paint this jar!  The bottom layers have swirling lines that represent the Hopi migration pattern.  The next layer is a checkerboard pattern.  Finally there are overlapping Sikyatki inspired birds.  The birds are all in various colors and and the body of each consists of various traditional Hopi-Tewa designs.  There is an exceptional complexity to this jar in the painting, making it a bold and creative piece of art in clay.  The jar is signed, “Les Namingha”.  Once again Les creates such thoughtful work and challenges the viewer to find a deeper meaning in each piece!

 

 

 

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Namingha, Les (b. 1967)

Les Namingha

Les Namingha

Les Namingha (b.1967) is the son of Emerson Namingha, the grandson of Rachel Nampeyo, great-grandson of Annie Healing, and a great-great-grandson of Nampeyo of Hano. Les blends and deconstructs traditional and historic designs in an amazingly modern style.  His painting's precision is undoubtedly a reflection of his learning to make pottery from his aunt, Dextra Quotskuyva, a master potter and world-renowned innovator.  Les has won numerous awards for his pottery at the Santa Fe Indian Market, the Heard Museum Market, and other events.  It has been featured in multiple books on Hopi and Pueblo art.  He continues to be one of the dynamic innovators in Pueblo pottery! Through his creative designs, textures, and materials, Les Namingha transforms and challenges Hopi and Pueblo pottery's surface expectations.  He is as much a painter as a potter, and his vessels rely on form, surface design, and color to reveal their ancient and modern artistic influences. Les says, "Sometimes the painting goes with the flow of what's in you.  There's not as much thought as in other pieces.  That comes from my love of abstract art, where the process is the process.  There are other works where there is much consideration that goes into it.  Maybe I'm working on the under-structure design with painting first and then laying it aside for a bit.  I'll think about where to go next and see where the piece leads me.  There is also solely relying on the teaching of the older Nampeyo-type designs.  The process for me is trying to work with the color since the structure is already there.  The question is what I'm going to do with it.
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