Four Winds Gallery
Current Exhibition:
Na Na Ping Christmas 2011
Past Exhibitions:
Buying Trip September 2011
Bruce King June 2011
Denise Wallace March 2011
Cody Sanderson 2010
Buying Trip 2010
Historic Pueblo Ollas
For the Collector 2010
Stan Natchez 2009
Buying Trip 2009
Old Pawn Collection
Denise Wallace
Cody Sanderson
Buying Trip 2008
R.C. Gorman
Bruce King and Na Na Ping
Jovanna Poblano and Daniel Chattin
Buying Trip 2007
Liz Wallace
Stan Natchez - Shoshoni/Paiute Artist
NaNa Ping and Thomas Bucich
Buying Trip 2006
George Catlin
Denise and Samuel Wallace
Image Gallery - Denise and Samuel Wallace
Image Gallery - Dawn Wallace
Charlene Reano
Buying Trip 2005
Robert Deurloo
Edward Sheriff Curtis
Liz Wallace
Buying Trip 2004
Zapotec Weavings of Teotitlan
Clifford Fragua
NaNa Ping
Cody Sanderson
November 2008
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Four Winds Gallery invites you to meet renowned Navajo silversmith Cody Sanderson of Dine ancestry and to view his extensive and innovative collection.
SATURDAY 29th NOVEMBER 2008 Noon to 5:00pm
Sanderson is known for his imaginative, often playful style. His award winning jewellery frequently involves hand-fabricating techniques such as bending, forging, casting and stamping.
Awards
Cody Sanderson is one of the most talented Navajo silversmiths in the Southwest of the U.S.A. today. His awards include:
- Fellowship recipient for SWAIA 2005
- Santa Fe Opera Fashion Show 2005
- IAIA Indian Market Fashion Show 2006
- Best of Show Heard Museum 2008
- 1st Place Indian Market: Open Vessels 2008
- Fellowship for visiting artist at Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC 2008
About Cody Sanderson
43 year old Navajo artist, Cody Sanderson, rarely stops moving. He is always demonstrating different metal-smithing techniques when you talk with him, such as high domes in a copper sheet and using the antique silversmithing form of repoussé.
His theme this year for Indian Market was bugs, spikes and stars. He calls them his paramecium and amoebas. Sanderson’s especially inventive works may incorporate ball bearings, multiple hinges or internal springs.
However, the artist also has a more serious yet innovative side. This is expressed in pieces like a 22-carat-gold necklace using exquisite, naturally branching red coral. It comes with a Bisbee turquoise - accented crab with diamond eyes, which can be attached to the necklace or worn as a pin.
Cody Sanderson grew up in Window Rock, Arizona. Among his first teachers were Sabra Sowell for metal fabrication and David Gaussoin for tufa-casting. Talented Navajo artist/jeweller, Mckee Platero has also been a mentor of Sanderson’s.
One of the lasting lessons Gaussoin passed on was something his own mother always said, “Don’t sweat it if another artist borrows your ideas, they can’t see the designs that are in your head.”
“So it keeps pushing me to do something different", Sanderson points out. "I really enjoy waking up to know I’m going to create something", he says. ”A new day is a new piece.”
Images of Cody's collection will be coming soon!