JUDY TUWALETSTIWA: Judy Tuwaletstiwa is a mixed media painter who uses natural materials, such as sand, mud, feathers, sticks, and fiber, with acrylic on canvas. Her paintings reside in numerous private, corporate and public collections. She has shown her work in many group and solo exhibitions over the past thirty years, nationally and internationally.

ABOUT | The Grid:
Tuwaletstiwa often works in a grid format. Of the grid she writes, "The grid is a matrix (from the Latin word for mother), constructed of the most basic elements - the dot and the dash. The dash becomes the lines of the grid, the dot lives at their inter-section. Evocative in the harmonious rhythm of its neutral simplicity, the grid works as a mathematically precise web that helps me organize material that arises from the continually shifting waters of the unconscious."