Mallery
Mixed Media Artist
Mallery is from the Pueblo of Zuni but resides in Albuquerque. She is currently employed as the Artist-in-Residence with UNM College of Pharmacy Community Environmental Health Program, where she creates art as translation for scientific research. Mallery incorporates her education in Biology (BS-UNM 09’) and her art to create a bridge for communication between science, medicine and Native Communities.
She also has three large-scale murals on permanent display, Morning Prayer(2010) at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque and Water is Life(2018) and Halodina Łeya’u(2020) both at the Ho’n A:wan Park in Zuni Pueblo. Her painting symbolizing the ties between the Grand Canyon and Zuni culture is part of a traveling collaboration called the Zuni Map Art Project, which has been displayed at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. The Map Art Project was also featured in a documentary by National Geographic.
Other noted works include two self-published coloring books entitled, “Zuni Pottery Designs” and “Sunfaces” and a 12-piece set entitled “What Makes a Zuni?” on permanent display at the Zuni IHS. Her work can also be found at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Bioengineering Department where a painting describing the gut microbiome is on display. Mallery’s diptych painting regarding uranium mining affecting Native lifeways will be part of a traveling exhibition hosted by the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts this summer 2021.
Artist Statement: I have always stayed in the center of the conflict of what makes indigenous art Traditional or Contemporary. I like to mingle the two so that there is always a balance. Everything I’ve learned in life is a harmony, a song, and a ripple of blessings generated from the place I am from. Everything has a center, and through my art I wish to carry those waves outward and continue sharing ancient knowledge in every aesthetic way possible. It is evident that my use of traditional designs and motifs are there in place of words or letters, much like poetry. I hope to reach at least one mind, one reader of my art, that these ancient designs are here to stay and that it carries with it the glory of not just me but the entire nation that produced this individual. Creativity knows no bounds and so does my outlook on my artistic future.
She also has three large-scale murals on permanent display, Morning Prayer(2010) at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque and Water is Life(2018) and Halodina Łeya’u(2020) both at the Ho’n A:wan Park in Zuni Pueblo. Her painting symbolizing the ties between the Grand Canyon and Zuni culture is part of a traveling collaboration called the Zuni Map Art Project, which has been displayed at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. The Map Art Project was also featured in a documentary by National Geographic.
Other noted works include two self-published coloring books entitled, “Zuni Pottery Designs” and “Sunfaces” and a 12-piece set entitled “What Makes a Zuni?” on permanent display at the Zuni IHS. Her work can also be found at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Bioengineering Department where a painting describing the gut microbiome is on display. Mallery’s diptych painting regarding uranium mining affecting Native lifeways will be part of a traveling exhibition hosted by the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts this summer 2021.
Artist Statement: I have always stayed in the center of the conflict of what makes indigenous art Traditional or Contemporary. I like to mingle the two so that there is always a balance. Everything I’ve learned in life is a harmony, a song, and a ripple of blessings generated from the place I am from. Everything has a center, and through my art I wish to carry those waves outward and continue sharing ancient knowledge in every aesthetic way possible. It is evident that my use of traditional designs and motifs are there in place of words or letters, much like poetry. I hope to reach at least one mind, one reader of my art, that these ancient designs are here to stay and that it carries with it the glory of not just me but the entire nation that produced this individual. Creativity knows no bounds and so does my outlook on my artistic future.
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