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Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: All My Relations is organized by Tamarind Institute in
honor of the late American artist, an experienced and prolific printmaker who first connected with Tamarind in 1979 during her graduate years at University of New Mexico at the invitation of Director Emerita Marjorie Devon. Smith would go on to professionally collaborate with the workshop on over 40 editions, the longest-running relationship the workshop has had with any woman artist.
All My Relations features 20 lithographs by Smith, made in residence at Tamarind from 1980 to 2022, alongside works by artists whose paths and practices were influenced through their meeting and longterm relationship with the artist, including Jeffrey Gibson, Rose B. Simpson, Duane Slick, Marie Watt and Emmi Whitehorse.
Private viewings can be scheduled February 9–11, or by appointment
(Email to arrange).
A conversation on Smith’s artistic community and influence will be held on
Thurday, April 2, 5:30pm, with Neal Ambrose-Smith, Emmi Whitehorse, and George Alexander,
moderated by University of New Mexico professor and author Subhankar Banerjee (RSVP, limited capacity).
Public hours to view additional works by Smith from the Tamarind Archive in the study
room at the University of New Mexico Art Museum will be held 2–4pm on Friday, February 13,
March 13, March 27 and April 3 during the course of the exhibition.

Daffodil by Eric Craft
2/13 at 6:00pm and 2/14 at 4:00pm

One day a Daffodil living in central New Jersey sees the sky for the first time. With her worldview expanded, she decides to set out to the largest human city on earth: Tokyo, Japan. On the way she meets nihilistic butterflies, a non-binary murderous cult leader, a trio of singing sailors, a jackalope, and many other very grounded and realistic characters, but sparks fly when she meets the Japanese customs officer who holds her ultimate fate in his hands. This is a story about the transformative power of seeing the world in new ways and being just the right kind of selfish.

Part of the Linnell Festival of New Plays Spring Reading Series
The Experimental Theatre
Free Admission

UNM Art Presents an Artist Talk by Laurie Nye.

Laurie Nye’s colorful paintings of natural scenes, trees, flowers and plants explore and present the possibilities of utopia, and embody the feelings of expression and freedom. She is invested in looking, sensing, feeling and seeing through the creation of the work. The Elements of color, line, and shape are paramount to her work. Her curvy lyrical positive and negative shapes, full, emphatic and soft materiality, varied brushwork, vivid and pastel color, and sophisticated use of line presents a picture plane that melds flatness with painterly shifts and gossamer space. Laurie also has a background in surface design and brings inspiration from textiles and fabrics and exploring the intersection of painting and design.

Laurie NYE (b. 1972, Memphis, TN) received her BFA from the Memphis College of Art (Memphis, TN), and her MFA from the California Institute of the Arts (Valencia, CA). In 2026, Laurie Nye’s work will be featured in a solo show at Philip Martin Gallery (Los Angeles, CA), with additional group shows at Haverkampf Leistenschneider (Berlin, Germany) and Rachel Uffner Gallery (New York, NY). Laurie Nye’s work has appeared in such solo and group exhibtions as “A Particular Kind of Heaven,” Parrasch Heijnen (Los Angeles, CA); “The Moth & The Thunderclap,” Modern Art (London, UK); “Encounter,” Rachel Uffner Gallery (New York, NY); “BodyLand,” Galerie Max Hetzler (Berlin, Germany); “Unnatural Nature: Post-Pop Landscapes,” Acquavella (New York, NY); Van Doren Waxter (New York, NY); Bark Berlin Gallery (Berlin, Germany); The Pit (Glendale, CA); Odd Ark (Los Angeles, CA); Big Pictures LA (Los Angeles, CA); Blake and Vargas, (Berlin, Germany); The Dot Project, (London, UK); Day and Night Gallery (Atlanta, GA); La Loma Projects, (Pasadena, CA); and Unpaved Gallery (Yucca Valley, CA). Laurie Nye’s artist project, “Chickasaw Moon,” at Odd Ark (Los Angeles, CA) was an Artforum Critic’s Pick. Laurie Nye’s solo exhibition at Philip Martin Gallery was Artforum Best of Year 2021 feature. Nye has work in the OZ Art Northwest Arkansas, (Bentonville, AR) collection. Her work has been reviewed in such publications as Artillery, Los Angeles Times, Artforum, FAD Magazine and LA Weekly. Laurie Nye lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.