Welcome to the Marion Scott Gallery Winter 2007 Newsletter!
 

Recent news, upcoming exhibitions and new publications.

  Ashoona attends opening in Vancouver
   
COLLECTORS AND ADMIRERS of the work of Shuvinai Ashoona had a chance to meet the Cape Dorset artist this fall when she travelled to Vancouver to attend the October 13 opening of Shuvinai Ashoona: Drawings 1993-2007. The mid-career retrospective, Ashoona's first, has been extremely well received by both critics and the public. Ashoona, who helped gallery staff install the show before the opening, also took time off to enjoy some of the local sights during her weeklong stay in Vancouver. It was the artist’s second time to the West Coast. Congratulations, Shuvinai, on a very successful show!
   
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  Recent Exhibitions
 
 

Tony Anguhalluq: Drawings
December 1, 2007 - January 6, 2008

This December the Marion Scott Gallery proudly presents an exhibition of new drawings by Tony Anguhalluq. Serving as a follow-up to Anguhalluq’s enormously successful solo exhibition at MSG in April, the new show brings together over 30 recent landscapes by the young Baker Lake artist.

As with the earlier images, Anghalluq's striking new works employ bird’s eye perspectives and combinations of aerial and side views in order to picture the treeless northern landscape and the waterways that course through it. Anguhalluq's distinctive contours and large masses of solid colour are reminiscent of Japanese woodcuts. Several of the images in the exhibition include human figures engaged in everyday activities such as hunting, while others make no reference to a human presence.



       
 
 

Art Forms 2007
December 8 - 31, 2007

Also in December, the Marion Scott Gallery will present its annual winter exhibition of small sculptures from the Canadian North. This year’s offerings include a number of exceptional pieces created in the 1950s and 1960s, along with a range of more recent works by such well-known artists as Nick Sikkuark and Jutai Toonoo. Other sculptors represented in the collection include Josie Papialuk, John Kavik and Taloyoak’s Sam Nahaulaituq.



 
 
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  Now Available from MSG Books
 

  Shuvinai Ashoona: Drawings 1993-2007

Published to accompany the artist's 2007 mid-career retrospective at the Marion Soctt Gallery, this 12-page catalogue reproduces several images from this important exhibition. Accompanying the reproductions is an insightful and timely essay by Amy Karlinsky, a Winnipeg-based educator and curator of contemporary art. Karlinksy's essay traces Ashoona's artistic evolution through a variety of stylistic phases and thematic concerns, at the same time contextualizing the artist within the broader milieu of Cape Dorset art-making.

This publication is part of MSG's innovative series of exhibition booklets devoted to historical Inuit art.

12 colour reproductions,1 black-and-white photograph, 12 pages. Price: C$7.95

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Northern Line: Drawings by Sheojuk Etidlooie

A publication to accompany the Marion Scott Gallery's 2007 retrospective of works by the late Cape Dorset artist Sheojuk Etidlooie (1932-1999). In addition to several reproductions of works from the exhibition, the catalogue contains an essay by curator Robert Kardosh that provides a long overdue analysis of Etidlooie's highly idiosyncratic art. Based on interviews with people who knew and worked with Etidlooie, Kardosh goes behind the abstract and often seemingly enigmatical designs to uncover the images' real meanings.

This publication is part of MSG's innovative series of exhibition booklets devoted to historical Inuit art.

 10 colour reproductions,1 black-and-white photograph, 12 pages. Price: C$7.95

For more information or to order, click here >>

     
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