Steve tamayo artist portrait
Steven Tamayo is a traditional Sicangu Lakota artist, educator, and consultant whose practice is centered on the materials, construction, and history.
Bluebird Art and Regalia showcases the traditional and contemporary Native American art of Lakota artist Steve Tamayo.!
Tamayo: The New York Years
The exhibition brings together forty-one of Tamayo’s finest artworks, including key loans from public and private collections in Mexico.
The exhibition offers a unique opportunity to trace his artistic development—from his urban-themed paintings depicting the modern sights of the city to the dream-like canvases that show an artist eager to propel Mexican art in new directions.
While living in New York, intermittently from the late 1920s to 1949, Tamayo engaged with the new ideas expressed in the modern art that he saw in museums and galleries.
He, like many artists during this period, was deeply impressed by the art of Pablo Picasso, whose influence permeates the work of the European avant-garde and that of American modernists who followed. Tamayo’s approach to the figure became more fractured, schematic, and abstract as he internalized the lessons of Picasso’s art.
Tamayo shared common interests with younger American artists incl
