Meeting Daphne Odjig in 1971 is the reason I am an artist today, as a mentor and peer she encouraged my talent and coached my ability as an artist and art professional, resulting in the amazing career I have as an artist, activist and art professional. Though mainly self taught, the opportunity to work with many artists and art professionals as a collaborator, assistant, exhibition designer, curator, and museum director provided many experiences, skills and valuable critique. I especially acknowledge my two mentors, Daphne Odjig and Philip C. Curtis, (founder of the Phoenix Art Museum) who have been essential to my success as an artist.
Joseph Sanchez
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Joseph Sanchez has a unique place in the Canadian First Nations art movement. Born and raised in Arizona, Joseph lived in Canada in the 1970’s and was a founding member of the Professional Native Indian Artists Association along-side Daphne Odjig, Alex Janvier, Norval Morrisseau and others. Known as both an artist and curator Joseph’s vast list of achievements include Director and Chief Curator of the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
“I call this work Grandmothers and Angels referring to the spirits that protect and guide us and to the elders who we must listen to in these times of great challenges.
The power of the folding- twisting-moving lines is an illustration of dimensions that are a reality to indigenous man, recently being discovered by science. They speak of the shaman walking between the veils of reality and the spirit world. I dive uninhibited into the unknown forsaking the conscious for a glimpse of the energy and color that lies dormant in indigenous man.”
Greeting the Sunrise
Artist: Joseph Sanchez
Medium: Mixed Media on Linen
Size: 37.5 x 82 Inches
Code No.: MA20
Price: $12,000.00
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Untitled
Artist: Joseph Sanchez
Medium: Watercolour on Paper
Size: 30 x 22 Inches
Code No.: MA13
Price: $19,500.00 Framed
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This painting was exhibited in 1975 at Joseph Sanchez’s first show the Warehouse Gallery in Winnipeg. The Warehouse Gallery was owned by celebrated artist Daphne Odjig, and was the meeting place of the artists that formed the Native Professional Indian Artists Inc., also known as the Indigenous Group of Seven. Jackson Beardy, Eddy Cobiness, Alex Janvier, Norval Morrisseau, Daphne Odjig, Cary Ray and Joseph Sanchez were the founding members of the group.
Joseph says of this painting, “I believe the work is a look inside the mind of the artist with the spirits showing their faces and with my wife Ann as the figure holding it all together and the artist with his heart pierced by an arrow of pain, love, and ecstasy.”
Included with this painting is the large PNIA Inc catalogue signed by Joseph and a photograph of Joseph in the gallery in 1975 hanging this very painting on the wall of the Warehouse Gallery.
Untitled – Couple
Artist: Joseph Sanchez
Medium: Pastel on Paper
Size: 36 x 24 Inches
Code No.: MA19
Price: $6,000.00
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A career in the museum world and my studio in Scottsdale, Arizona lasted 22 years when I married Margaret Burke and moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1999.In 2002, I volunteered at the Institute of American Indian Arts Museum, was hired as exhibition coordinator and went on to become Interim Director and Chief Curator for what is now called the Museum of Contemporary Native Art. Receiving the Allan Houser Memorial Award in 2006 for artistic excellence and community involvement is the highlight of a long career of artist groups and community activity.
Fire
Artist: Joseph Sanchez
Medium: Acrylic and Canvas
Size: 20 Inches in Diameter
Code No.: JS93
Price: $2,800.00
Water
Artist: Joseph Sanchez
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 20 Inches in Diameter
Code No.: JS94
Price: $2,800.00
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Moonrise
Artist: Joseph Sanchez
Medium: Acrylic and Conté on Canvas Board
Size: 14 x 11 Inches
Code No.: JS92
Price: $1,395.00 Framed
Women Emerging
Artist: Joseph Sanchez
Medium: Acrylic and Conté on Wood
Size: 20 x 16 Inches
Code No.: JS97
Price: $2,500.00
Air
Artist: Joseph Sanchez
Medium: Acrylic and Conté on Wood
Size: 20 x 16 Inches
Code No.: JS102
Price: $2,500.00
Cloud Spirit
Artist: Joseph Sanchez
Medium: Acrylic and Conté on Wood
Size: 20 x 16 Inches
Code No.: JS99
Price: $2,500.00
Clear Cut Lament
Artist: Joseph Sanchez
Medium: Acrylic and Conté on Wood
Size: 20 x 16 Inches
Code No.: JS96
Price: $2,500.00
Mountain Lament
Artist: Joseph Sanchez
Medium: Acrylic and Conté on Wood
Size: 20 x 16 Inches
Code No.: JS104
Price: $2,500.00
Mists
Artist: Joseph Sanchez
Medium: Acrylic and Conté on Wood
Size: 20 x 16 Inches
Code No.: JS95
Price: $2,500.00
Storm
Artist: Joseph Sanchez
Medium: Acrylic and Conté on Wood
Size: 20 x 16 Inches
Code No.: JS103
Price: $2,500.00
Earth
Artist: Joseph Sanchez
Medium: Acrylic and Conté on Wood
Size: 20 x 16 Inches
Code No.: JS100
Price: $2,500.00
Fire Spirit
Artist: Joseph Sanchez
Medium: Acrylic and Conté on Board
Size: 7 x 5 Inches
Code No.: JS74
Price: $650.00
Talking to the Spirits
Artist: Joseph Sanchez
Medium: Acrylic and Conté on Board
Size: 7 x 5 Inches
Code No.: JS79
Price: $650.00