Artist

Bud Latven

born Philadelphia, PA 1949
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Courtesy Bud Latven.
Born
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Biography

Bud Latven moved to New Mexico in 1972 and worked in a cabinet shop making waterbeds and southwestern-style furniture. He started his own business in a small abandoned garage two years later and made furniture from burls and root structures. After using a lathe to make a set of goblets, he began to experiment with turned vessels and sculptures. Latven became a leader in the technique of "segmented turning" during the 1980s. He constructs the initial form from many small blocks of wood and often incorporates a variety of colors into one piece.

Works by this artist (3 items)

Ernesto Yerena Montejano, Viva Yalitza (Yalitza Aparicio Martínez), 2019, offset lithograph on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the artist, 2020.52
Viva Yalitza (Yalitza Aparicio Martínez)
Date2019
offset lithograph on paper
Not on view
Ernesto Yerena Montejano, Shepard Fairey, Not One More Deportation, 2015, screenprint on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Patricia Tobacco Forrester Endowment, 2020.50.2, © 2015, Ernesto Yerena and Shepard Fairey
Not One More Deportation
Date2015
screenprint on paper
Not on view
Ernesto Yerena Montejano, Roxana Dueñas, Stand with LA Teachers!, 2019, screenprint on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Patricia Tobacco Forrester Endowment, 2020.50.1, © 2019, Ernesto Yerena and Roxana Dueñas
Stand with LA Teachers!
Date2019
screenprint on paper
Not on view