
Ingmars Lindbergs
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Grace Medicine Flower is known for combining traditional motifs with contemporary techniques and unexpected elements to create her signature style. In the 1970s, she began combining carving with the sgraffito technique she admired from work produced by her friend Tony Da. Later, she began carving the rims and creating openwork panels in her vessels (King, Charles S., Spoken Through Clay: The Eric S. Dobkin Collection, Museum of New Mexico Press, Santa Fe, NM, p. 27-28). In the present example, the artist's technical mastery is on full display, with three-dimensional design elements extending into the mouth of the vessel and delicate sgraffito medallions adorning the shoulders.