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A Tammy Garcia glass sculpture, "Mimbres Fish," 2006 image 1
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Lot 51

A Tammy Garcia glass sculpture, "Mimbres Fish," 2006

28 August 2025, 12:00 PDT
Los Angeles

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Tammy Garcia

Santa Clara Pueblo, (b. 1969), "Mimbres Fish," 2006, sand-carved curved glass panel worked with fish and geometric designs mounted on stone base, edition 4 of 15, the panel signed and numbered along the lower edge.
overall: height 40in, width 22in; glass: height 36in, width 14in

Footnotes

For a similarly executed example, see Chambers, Letitia, Clearly Indigenous: Native Visions Reimagined in Glass, 2020, Museum of New Mexico Press, Santa Fe, NM, p. 133: "Out of Sight," 2007, a figural example in the collection of the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture.

Per Chambers, Garcia began working in glass in 2005, in collaboration with Tlingit glass artist Preston Singletary; the two began their collaboration with blown glass bowls created by Singletary that Garcia would then carve in the tradition of Santa Clara pottery. The present lot is a natural extension of that collaboration, worked from architectural glass slumped into a mold and then carved (pp. 122-123).

Provenance
Acquired by the present owner from Blue Rain Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

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