Navajo Artist Emmi Whitehorse’s Symbolic Landscapes Offer a Path to Reconnection With Nature

For over 40 years, the wild landscape of the Southwest has been a rich source of inspiration for Emmi Whitehorse. Yet her approach to nature and its translation onto canvas is profoundly different from traditional landscape painting: her compositions are more abstract and symbolic, filled with an accumulation of signs and symbols that float within vaporous fields of color, occasionally guided by bold gestural marks. As a member of the Navajo Nation, Whitehorse has viewed nature from a perspective...