Karima Muyaes (Mexican, b.1960). "Dancing Shaman Woman". Collage with handmade amate (Mexican bark) paper. 2016. Signed lower right. Fine condition. Literature/catalogue raisonne: This work will be included in James Orr's forthcoming catalogue raisonne of Muyaes’s oeuvre. Provenance: Private collection, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Overall size: 24 1/4 x 20 1/4 in. (616 x 514 mm). A listed artist, Muyaes is currently one of the most innovative and talented international painters/printmakers. A major monograph on her work with an introduction by Avelina Lesper, the foremost contemporary Mexican art critic, will be published mid-2018. Muyaes’s work has sold at Sotheby's (New York City), Swann Galleries (New York City), Martin Gordon Auctions (Phoenix), Louis C. Morton (Mexico City), and Casa de Subastas Odalys (Madrid/Caracas). In April of 2013 she was chosen as one of the top 34 currently active Mexican artists and featured in a series of articles in the prestigious Mexican newspaper "Milenio" as well as TV appearances. Muyaes has an extensive worldwide exhibition history which includes a show that travelled throughout Sweden for two years, 2010-2012. In 2018 her work and that of the noted African-American artist David C. Driskell will be showcased in a two person exhibition at The David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora at the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland. Image copyright © Karima Muyaes. [29403-0-700]