Exhibition was part of the Mendel Art Gallery's Post-Colonial Landscape series, featured 60 paintings from 1960-1990 selected from the Thunder Bay Art Gallery's retrospective The Art of Alex Janvier: His First Thirty Years, 1960-1990.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 14, no. 1, Spring, 1999, pp. 42-44
Description
Exhibition review mounted at the Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario, September 12 to December 5, 1998.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 42.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 9, no. 2, Summer, 1994, pp. 36-38
Description
Exhibition review from the Joseph and Margaret Muscarelle Museum of Art, Virginia, 1993-1994.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access review, scroll to page 36.
Journal of American Institute for Conservation, vol. 38, no. 1, 1999, pp. 45-54
Description
Analysis of the two paintings uses evidence to formulate a hypothesis as to why the artist, Albert Biestadt painted two versions and in what order they were painted.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 9, no. 4, Winter, 1994, pp. 31-34
Description
Exhibition reviews of:
The Human Face, March 20 to November 13, 1994.
Matisse: The Inuit Face, April 24 to June 19, 1994.
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Looks at aesthetic philosophies, techniques and personal styles of four Aboriginal female artists; Doreen Jensen, Rena Point Bolton, Jane Ash Poitras, Joane Cardinal-Schubert.
Duration: 51:49.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 7, no. 2, Spring, 1992, pp. 38-42
Description
Review essay of art exhibition held at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario, December 15, 1991 to March 29, 1992 featuring 100,00 drawings and prints from West Baffin Cooperative.
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Art Journal, vol. 51, no. 3, Recent Native American Art, Fall, 1992, pp. 66-73
Description
Author comments on the exhibition mounted by the Canadian Museum of Civilization in 1992 and issues concerning the Aboriginal artistic community in general, such as being the subject or object, rather than the observer.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 14, no. 2, Summer, 1999, pp. 34-35
Description
Curatorial notes for exhibition of the same name mounted at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1999.
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Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 14, no. 3, Fall, 1999, pp. 35-37
Description
Curatorial notes for exhibition of the same name mounted at the Canadian Museum of Civilization, Quebec, 2000.
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Poitras, once labeled an angry artist, believes anger is foreign to Indigenous philosophies and traditions, instead dictates forgiveness. Her works have display evils done to First Nations people by the church, Western materialism, residential schools and alcohol, but her own worldview is that trials and suffering lead to redemption.
Art Journal, vol. 51, no. 3, Recent Native American Art, Autumn, 1992, pp. 83-85
Description
Review of the Leonora Carrington: The Mexican Years, 1943-1985 exhibit organized by Holly Barnet-Sanchez, essay by Whitney Chadwick, interview by Paul de Angelis, chronology by Salomon Grimberg. The Exhibition was in the Mexico Museum of San Francisco, December 11, 1991 to March 8, 1992.
Based on the exhibition Shared Visions: Native American Painters and Sculptors in the Twentieth Century, the focus is on artists from the Southwest and Oklahoma.
Art Journal, vol. 51, no. 3, Recent Native American Art, Autumn, 1992, pp. 74-80
Description
Discusses the Indian Arts and Crafts Act of 1990 (United States) and the artist's response, as illustrated in his art, is that "authenticity" is another concept designed to keep Native Americans enclosed in "their world" through a label imposed by Euro-Americans.
Describes the significance of some ledger-type Assiniboine drawings by an unknown artist and how they record a lifestyle that has disappeared from the Canadian Plains.
Art Journal, vol. 51, no. 3, Recent Native American Art, Autumn 1992, pp. 59-65
Description
Surveys works of contemporary artists including: Gerald McMaster, Lawrence Paul, Shelley Niro, Bill Powless, Jane Ash Poitras, and Joanne Cardinal-Schubert.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 14, no. 3, Fall, 1999, pp. 38-39
Description
Curatorial notes for exhibition by the same name organized by Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, 2000.
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Journal of Canadian Art History, vol. 16, no. 1, 1994, pp. 10-29
Description
Comments on paintings that juxtapose 'primitive' against 'civilized'. A summary in French follows the article.
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Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 9, no. 3, Fall, 1994, pp. 4-13
Description
Comments on three generations of Inuit artists and notes shared characteristics in their drawings.
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Discusses the importance of Indigenous world views in the production of works by contemporary artists.
Essay from the exhibition catalogue for Land, Spirit, Power: First Nations at the National Gallery in Canada.