“My work comes right from a visceral place—deep, deep—as though my roots extend beyond the soles of my feet into sacred soils,” said the Native American artist Jaune Quick-To-See Smith. “Can I take these feelings and attach them to the passerby? To my dying breath, and my last tube of burnt sienna, I will try.” Smith was born in 1940, in the St. Ignatius Mission on the Flathead Reservation in Montana. From the moment she started drawing on the ground with sticks, Smith knew she wanted to be an artist. While she had to work various blue-collar jobs to support herself, she was passionate about creating art that highlighted the often obscured Native American identity and history. Smith died in January 2025, at 85. In the first posthumous exhibition of her work, Fruitmarket celebrates Smith’s fight for Native visibility and justice. —Maggie Turner