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Heights III

2022

Rose B. Simpson

(Santa Clara Pueblo, b. 1983)
Culture
America
Medium
Clay, steel, twine, grout, and beads from bone, wood, lava, trade glass, pyrite, and stone
Measurements
Overall: 190.5 x 58.4 x 58.4 cm (75 x 23 x 23 in.)
Credit Line
Severance and Greta Millikin Trust 2023.49
Copyright
© Rose B. Simpson, courtesy of Jessica Silverman, San Francisco and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
224A Contemporary Corridor
Print
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Did You Know?

Rose B. Simpson’s mother, Roxanne Swentzell, is also an artist.

Description

Heights III is a self-portrait of the artist holding her daughter. The object shows traces of Simpson’s intricate hand molding throughout the surface. The arms of both figures are missing, replaced instead with handles, symbolizing their likeness to double-handled, ceramic vessels. Simpson is from a long lineage of women from her northern New Mexico tribe working with clay, dating backs hundreds of years. Of the material, the artist says: “Clay was the earth that grew our food, was the house we lived in, was the pottery we ate out of and prayed with. So my relationship to clay is ancestral and I think it has a deep genetic memory. It’s like a family member for us.”
Dark grey clay sculpture of a figure facing us and holding a child on her right hip. On one side, their shoulders conjoin, on the other, clay loops replace arms. A beaded thread hangs across the figures' chests, tied to the loops on either side. A post rises from each figure's head, connected by arches between them.

Heights III

2022

Rose B. Simpson

(Santa Clara Pueblo, b. 1983)
America

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