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| From his studio in Santa Fe, Marcus Amerman creates bead pictures that depict the history of his Choctaw and Hopi heritage and also celebrity portraits of which his first subject was Brooke Shields.
Of his work, he says: "I combine the pictorial bead work of the Plateau tribes with the graduated peyote imagery of Oklahoma tribes into a style with which I can capture shadow, light, and form" (Southwest Art, January 2001).
Ameriman grew up in a family of bead artists. His aunt gave him his first lessons, and his brother won awards. Since then, he has created wall pictures as well as personal accessories such as pins and belt buckles.
He studied sculpture at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, and after graduation, moved to Santa Fe. He enrolled in the Institute of American Indian Arts and studied documentary film making, but his bead work attracted wide attention from early in his career. It has been exhibited at the National Museum of the American Indian, the Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis, and the Museum of Art and Culture in Santa Fe. |
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