ABSTRACT:
Harry Fonseca continues to grow as a painter in a field where many artists of Indian ancestry have settled for the commercial, stylized, and stereotypical themes expected by the market for native expression. Always changing and developing, Fonseca's works for the Eiteljorg Museum exhibition in 2005 demonstrate the painter as mature, strikingly independent, and unwilling to compromise to lesser standards for artists of indigenous origin. It is refreshing and an important stance in the politicized arena of Native American art today.
