Prayers for Your Sacred Journey

 

Estella Loretto

  1954 - PRESENT (biography)

1999  

hand-colored digital print 

15 x 22" image size 

colored pencil, lower right 

variant impression from an unstated edition 

titled and dated in colored pencil, lower margin 

 

heavy white Somerset wove 

 

 

24529 

$200.00 

Estella Loretto is a Pueblo Jemez artist based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, whose work often addresses the spiritual realm of her tribal upbringing using a solidly contemporary style. Here, she uses saturated neon pigment to emphasize the geometric symbols suspended in the foreground; they appear to vibrate against a stylized, digitally printed desert landscape and glowing sunset. Loretto is hailed as the first Native American woman to work in monumental sculpture and she continues to operate a studio in Santa Fe, New Mexico.