This extensively illustrated volume collects the varied, powerful work of Meinrad Craighead, an artist whose images find their beginnings in her Catholic roots (she was a nun for fourteen years) as well as in the traditions of Southwest Native American Culture, in which she immersed herself after moving to New Mexico in the 1980s. Craighead devoted her life to contemplation, prayer, and art. Her images are both figurative and abstract; she worked in both black-and-white and color. Animals figure prominently in her work, as do dream figures and the artist herself in various manifestations. Oftentimes her images relate journeys she has taken, either on this earth or in waking or sleeping dreams. Many times, her paintings are accompanied by her own telling of these stories, and as a writer, Craighead has the ability to move us as deeply as her images do. This retrospective conveys Craighead's enormous body of work over the past forty years. Essays by Rosemary Davies, Virginia Beane Rutter, and Eugenia Parry. 250 reproductions.
