Rose B. Simpson is a Tewa sculptor of Khaʼpʼoe Ówîngeh (Santa Clara Pueblo)[1] (born 1983) is a mixed-media artist who works in ceramic, metal, fashion, painting, music, performance, and installation.
[11] Simpson is a mixed-media artist whose artwork investigates the complex issues of past, present and future aspects of humanity's tenuous survival in our current ecological condition.
She comes from a line of woman ceramic artists who passed their knowledge to her, and she still works alongside her mother, Roxanne Swentzell, and her young daughter when creating her art.
[15] Simpson developed her own signature clay-making technique called “slap-slab,” in which she tears off pieces from very thin slabs of clay and assembles them together while intentionally leaving imperfections visible.
[16] To her, evidence of process is a deep truth she does not want to conceal, so fingerprints, marks, and painterly brushstrokes are clearly visible in her ceramic works.
[14] Her style as an artist is also inspired by the Japanese aesthetic tradition and kintsugi ("golden joinery") which spiritual represents self-love and forgiveness.
Strata will be features in the Ames Family Atrium, and are "25-foot-tall figural sculptures that tower above the heads of visitors" constructed of clay and metalwork.
[28] Finally, her choice of a car as the medium is a reflection of the time she spent studying automotive technology at Northern New Mexico College.
Counterculture is a site-specific sculpture because the Field Farm is located on the ancestral homeland of the indigenous Mohican people, who were forcibly displaced by settler colonialism.