The Utah Museum of Fine Arts acquires work by Kay WalkingStick

Hales is proud to announce that Kay WalkingStick's 2022 work, Ute's Homeland has been acquired by the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, purchased with funds from the Phyllis Cannon Wattis Endowment Fund, UMFA2024.3.1.
 
Ute’s Homelands (2022) depicts mountains in Colorado. The title references the Indigenous people of the Ute tribe, who inhabit a wide area of Utah and Colorado, their ancestral land spanning many Southwestern states. The pattern is drawn from a Ute beadwork design. WalkingStick often draws from beadwork for it is designed on a grid, making it a powerful structural tool. She will then stencil the pattern onto the surface, painted thickly, creating a textural difference between the patterning in the foreground and the landscape in the background. The colors for the design are taken from the colors found in the natural vista, in a more vivid interpretation.
 
March 6, 2024