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Kenojuak Ashevak and Tim Pitsiulak
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<p><b>Two generations of Inuit artists challenging the parameters of tradition.</b></p><p>Kenojuak Ashevak shot to fame in 1970 when Canada Post printed <i>The Enchanted Owl</i>, a print of a black-and-red plumed nocturnal bird, on a postage stamp. She later became known as the magic-marker-wielding "grandmother of Inuit art," famous for her fluid graphic storytelling and her stunning depictions of wildlife. She was a defining figure in Inuit art and one of the first Indigenous artists to be embraced as a contemporary Canadian artist.</p><p>Ashevak's legacy inspired her nephew, Timootee (Tim) Pitsiulak, to take up drawing at the Kinngait Studios. In his relatively short career, he became a popular figure, known for drawing animal figures with a hunter's precision and capturing the technological presence of the South in Nunavut.</p><p><i>Tunirrusiangit</i>, "their gifts" or "what they gave" in Inuktitut, celebrates the achievements of two remarkable artists who challenged the parameters of tradition while consistently articulating a compelling vision of the Inuit world view. Published to coincide with a major exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario, opening on 16 June and continuing until late August, <i>Tunirrusiangit</i> features more than 60 reproductions of paintings, drawings, and documentary photographs. Completing the book are essays by contemporary artists and curators Jocelyn Piirainen, Anna Hudson, Georgiana Uhlyarik, Koomuatuk Curley, Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory, and Taqralik Partridge that address both the past and future of Inuit identity.</p>
Anna Hudson is a professor of Canadian art history and curatorial studies at York University., Georgiana Uhlyarik is Fredrik S. Eaton Curator, Canadian Art, and co-lead of the Indigenous + Canadian Art Department at the Art Gallery of Ontario. She works collaboratively with artists and curators from across the Americas and Europe and teaches art at York University and the University of Toronto. Her publications include Moving the Museum: Indigenous + Canadian Art at the AGO, Magnetic North: Imagining Canada in Painting 1910–40, Tunirrusiangit: Kenojuak Ashevak and Tim Pitsiulak, Rita Letendre: Fire & Light, Picturing the Americas: Landscape Painting from Tierra del Fuego to the Arctic, and Florine Stettheimer: Painting Poetry., Jocelyn Piirainen is an urban Inuk, originally from Ikaluktutiak (Cambridge Bay), Nunavut. She is Associate Curator, Inuit Art in the Indigenous Ways and Decolonization department at the National Gallery of Canada. Piirainen’s recent curatorial work included Winter Count: Embracing the Cold at the National Gallery of Canada. The former Associate Curator of Inuit Art at the Winnipeg Art Gallery and Qaumajuq worked on numerous exhibitions including ᐊᖏᕐᕋᒧᑦ/Ruovttu Guvlui/Towards Home with the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal and co-curated the landmark exhibition Tunirrusiangit: Kenojuak Ashevak and Tim Pitsiulak, presented at the Art Gallery of Ontario.
- ISBN-13
- 9781773100913
- Publisher
- Goose Lane Editions
- Imprint
- Goose Lane Editions
- Publication date
- 19 June 2018
- Format
- Hardback
- Pages
- 160
- Dimensions
- 260 x 260 mm
- Language
- English
