Santiago rivera artist biography
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Santiago Rivera - Contemporary Native American Art
Santiago Rivera, a Mescalero, Apache, and Hispanic, has a real connection with Taos, New Mexico, because of his grandfather, his mother's father.
They would come to Taos often to go on camping and fishing trips.
Santiago rivera artist biography
Taos would also be the first time Santiago got his introduction into the art world. Santiago remembers going to galleries in the plaza and admiring the art for the first time and many times after.At first, Santiago was not a painter but sculpted with clay.
Growing up on a ranch and going to rodeos, he one day found clay deposits in a nearby creek and started playing with it and realized it did not dissipate. Santiago would then create nonsensical abstract work and leave it on the beach to dry.
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He then began to paint them. However, he would put down clay making for quite a while and take on an interest in painting at sixteen years old. Santiago then began his self-taught artistic expression through painting and glass sc