Title: Margarete Bagshaw
Margarete Bagshaw (1964-2015). The daughter of artist Helen Harden and granddaughter of Santa Clara Pueblo artist Pablita Velarde, Margarete Bagshaw was a powerful artist in her own right. Bagshaw’s dynamic color palette and complex compositions is instantly recognizable and pays tribute to her mother and grandmother. And yet, like them, Bagshaw forged her own direction in her work. “I’ve been able to use color in ways that my grandmother and mother never would have considered. Grandma didn’t use translucent colors. Mom perfected the spray veils and used metallics, but I change color by layering color over color or color over pattern and pattern over color. Everything becomes a three-dimensional production of images.” Bagshaw’s achievements included opening a Santa Fe museum dedicated to Native American women artists, writing a memoir, and the 2012 exhibit at MIAC Margarete Bagshaw: Breaking the Rules.
Credit: Photo Dan McGuinness
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