James Temte
Northern Cheyenne
Artist and ANTHC APU Project Manager
I am a Northern Cheyenne contemporary visual artists and muralist. I love to alternate areas of organic movement with linear ribbons and patterns of richly variegated hues representing my Native American heritage. I work spontaneously, constructing motifs directly on the canvases and walls while emphasizing the tangible aspects of mixed media through innumerable applications of opaque and transparent color. With color and imagery as a metaphor, I explore a spiritual realm, eliciting feelings, associations, and meanings that allude to a concrete, visible reality. Ultimately, it is this meditative content and its emotional timbre that lies at the heart of my work.
My art is to be experienced. Life is the experience of imagining, daring, creating, following tangents, and creating again. It is my hope that the final pieces allow the viewer’s imagination to wander through my story, their journey, and settle in the space of contemplation and connection. So much of the human experience is unique but at the same time so much of it is to be shared.
