I See Red: Target

In _Target_, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith draws attention to mainstream America’s appropriation of Native American culture. Collaged across the surface are a pennant celebrating the 1992 Super Bowl football champions (now the Washington Commanders) and a comic book cover for _Son of Tomahawk._ This imagery contrasts with newspaper clippings from the Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana, which show a vibrant, living culture.

“I reference Indians being the Target of the corporate world of mascots and consumer goods,” Smith explained. The title also points to the target at the top with an array of darts, which resembles a head and feathered headdress. Smith nods to artist Jasper Johns’s iconic target paintings and Andy Warhol’s use of repeated photographic images to assert her place and that of Indigenous artists in the histories of modern art.