Post by blackcrowheart on Oct 22, 2006 16:23:36 GMT -5
ARTIST PROFILE: Monty Hadley Singer, Navajo
Posted by: "Mark H. Deschinny" deschinny@yahoo.com deschinny
Tue Oct 17, 2006 11:33 pm (PST)
ARTIST’S STATEMENT:
Drawing and painting are like breathing to me. Some of my earliest memories are of drawing in my father’s studio. My work reflects a record of the times as seen through the eyes of a man on the fringe of the fringe; walking the line between a youth spent partially on the Navajo reservation and partially in a small town raised by an Irish-Catholic stepfather. In both worlds, I was taught to never question. Asking “WHY?” has been the one constant in my life. Ambiguity in art is a truthful reflection of life. I paint what I see and remember, in reality and in the reality in my head. Some of the most beautiful lines in nature are of the female form, particularly the legs that I incorporate into much of my work. I like bold color and the way pastels translate my vision onto paper. This combination of ideas and use of color often causes an assault on the first time viewer’s senses not only visually and emotionally, but spiritually and ideologically as well. The
viewer is encouraged to create their own narrative about my work.
ARTIST’S BIOGRAPHY:
Navajo artist Monty Hadley Singer was born in Tuba City, AZ on the Navajo reservation. His father Ed Singer, an established artist and prodigious wife-beater, was very influential. Monty grew up on the western edge of the Navajo reservation and then later in the Rio Grande valley with his sister, mother and stepfather. After a few semesters at New Mexico Tech, Monty ran away and joined the U.S. Marines. In the Marines he served as a signals intelligence analyst and alcoholic in residence during the lame duck Clinton administration. After the corps, from 1998 to 2005, he worked an estimated two-dozen different jobs, some lasting no more than a couple weeks. In 2003 Monty married his best friend, Peggy who recognized his talent that he had been trying to bury since age 16. Finally, in January 2005 after witnessing the death of an aunt due to alcoholism he returned to art. Since then, aside from his gig as the courtroom sketch artist for the federal corruption trial of
former state treasurer Robert Vigil, Monty has more or less stuck to art. The only formal training in art that Monty has ever had is in the constant bickering and fighting with elementary art school teachers.
For more information, please view his Myspace site: www.myspace.com/montsingha
Posted by: "Mark H. Deschinny" deschinny@yahoo.com deschinny
Tue Oct 17, 2006 11:33 pm (PST)
ARTIST’S STATEMENT:
Drawing and painting are like breathing to me. Some of my earliest memories are of drawing in my father’s studio. My work reflects a record of the times as seen through the eyes of a man on the fringe of the fringe; walking the line between a youth spent partially on the Navajo reservation and partially in a small town raised by an Irish-Catholic stepfather. In both worlds, I was taught to never question. Asking “WHY?” has been the one constant in my life. Ambiguity in art is a truthful reflection of life. I paint what I see and remember, in reality and in the reality in my head. Some of the most beautiful lines in nature are of the female form, particularly the legs that I incorporate into much of my work. I like bold color and the way pastels translate my vision onto paper. This combination of ideas and use of color often causes an assault on the first time viewer’s senses not only visually and emotionally, but spiritually and ideologically as well. The
viewer is encouraged to create their own narrative about my work.
ARTIST’S BIOGRAPHY:
Navajo artist Monty Hadley Singer was born in Tuba City, AZ on the Navajo reservation. His father Ed Singer, an established artist and prodigious wife-beater, was very influential. Monty grew up on the western edge of the Navajo reservation and then later in the Rio Grande valley with his sister, mother and stepfather. After a few semesters at New Mexico Tech, Monty ran away and joined the U.S. Marines. In the Marines he served as a signals intelligence analyst and alcoholic in residence during the lame duck Clinton administration. After the corps, from 1998 to 2005, he worked an estimated two-dozen different jobs, some lasting no more than a couple weeks. In 2003 Monty married his best friend, Peggy who recognized his talent that he had been trying to bury since age 16. Finally, in January 2005 after witnessing the death of an aunt due to alcoholism he returned to art. Since then, aside from his gig as the courtroom sketch artist for the federal corruption trial of
former state treasurer Robert Vigil, Monty has more or less stuck to art. The only formal training in art that Monty has ever had is in the constant bickering and fighting with elementary art school teachers.
For more information, please view his Myspace site: www.myspace.com/montsingha