Bronze entitled "Hold My Hand" [SOLD]

With a family full of potters and sculptors, it was a natural progression for Roxanne Swentzell to become an artist. While still in high school, this Native American contemporary legend had the opportunity to study at the Institute for American Indian Arts in Santa Fe. She later found her way to the Portland Museum Art School in Oregon.

Roxanne began making clay figures at age 7, and as an adult, she started to make full-length clay figures depicting “the complete spectrum of the human spirit,” as her web site says. In her estimation, a great deal of humanity is “out of touch with their environment”, and her figures are meant to guide them back to their surroundings and feelings, including a “full range of emotions and irrepressible moods.” Swentzell spends a lot of time creating female characters in hopes that it will help strike a balance between the power of men and women. Humor is also an integral part of her work.

The Poeh Center’s Tower Gallery in Pojoaque, just north of Santa Fe, is devoted to her pieces, and Roxanne’s sculptures can be found in collections such as the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.

This sculpture entitled “Hold My Hand” is edition #5 of 20 and was originally produced in June or July of 2001 by Roxanne’s sister Poem through Bright Foundry, Inc., Louisville, Kentucky. The female character portrayed has a playful energy that will bring life to any room where she might recline.

Condition:This piece is in excellent original condition.

Provenance: The Estate of Frederick Boen Tjwan Oei