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Mumbo Jumbo
By Franco DeFrancesca
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Resin coated and mounted to layers of plywood, these digital/mixed media ‘picture objects’ represent interpretations of contemporary visual culture charmed by minimalism, modernism, ...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Prints
Materials
Resin, Panel, Digital Pigment
Chats et poissons
By Alfred Pellan
Located in Westmount, QC
Alfred Pellan, Canadian, 1906-1988
Chats et poissons, 1968
Serigraph
20 x 16 in (image)
signed, titled, dated 1968 and numbered (edition of 100) in the lower margin
blind stamp from ...
Category
1970s Canada - Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Nuit Blanche à Jérusalem
By Michel Piquette
Located in Montreal, Quebec
It is the luminous colours of Michel Piquette’s works that first catch the eye. His chromatic circles that stir up vision take root in an aesthetic tr...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Prints
Materials
Aluminum
Untitled
By Claude Tousignant
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Claude Tousignant is one of those very few artists whose lives have been dedicated exclusively to their art. At school, the only classes that interested him were drawing and geometry...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Prints
Materials
Digital
The Persian II
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Robert Motherwell (1915-1991), alongside Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning, made up the quartet of American abstract painters that radically defined Modern painting...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Canada - Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Ghost
By Sorel Etrog
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Sorel Etrog (1933- 2014) is arguably Canada's most famous sculptor.
His work can be found in numerous museum and private collections around the world including the Tate, the AGO and...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Canada - Abstract Prints
Materials
Intaglio
Fondation
By Jean-Paul Riopelle
Located in Westmount, QC
Jean-Paul Riopelle, 1923-2002, Canadian
Fondation
Etching
19 5/8 x 15 3/4 in (sheet)
49.8 x 40cm
INSCRIPTIONS
signed in pencil and numbered (ed of 120)
Catalogue raisonné reference: ...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Canada - Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Bands/Posts - P1, F3, I2
By Josef Albers
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Josef Albers (1888-1976) is remarkably affiliated with numerous movements that have defined art history in the 20th century. Art Historians credit Albers for fusing elements of Ameri...
Category
1970s Abstract Canada - Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Making a b-line to HaidaBucks, Salmonberry Frap #ftw #starbucksFAIL #lol
By Sonny Assu
Located in Montreal, Quebec
The title "Interventions On The Imaginary" is a clear reference to Marcia Crosby’s essay, "The Construction of the Imaginary Indian", and situates itself within the realm of remix culture—as digital interventions onto works that contain the colonial gaze.
These interventions participate in the growing discourse of decolonization, acting as “tags” to challenging the colonial fantasy of terra nullius and confronting the dominant colonial culture’s continued portrayal of Indigenous peoples as a vanishing race...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Canada - Abstract Prints
Materials
Archival Paper, Digital
The Value of Comic Sans
By Sonny Assu
Located in Montreal, Quebec
The title "Interventions On The Imaginary" is a clear reference to Marcia Crosby’s essay, "The Construction of the Imaginary Indian", and situates itself within the realm of remix culture—as digital interventions onto works that contain the colonial gaze.
These interventions participate in the growing discourse of decolonization, acting as “tags” to challenging the colonial fantasy of terra nullius and confronting the dominant colonial culture’s continued portrayal of Indigenous peoples as a vanishing race...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Canada - Abstract Prints
Materials
Archival Paper, Digital
There is Hope, If We Rise (Teach)
By Sonny Assu
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Sonny Assu (Liǥwildaʼx̱w of the Kwakwaka’wakw Nations) was raised in North Delta, BC, over 250 km away from his home ancestral home on Vancouver Island. Having been raised as your everyday average suburbanite, it wasn't until he was eight years old that he discovered his Liǥwildax̱w/Kwakwaka’wakw heritage. Later in life, this discovery would be the conceptual focal point that helped launch his unique art practice.
Assu's artistic practice is diverse: spanning painting, sculpture, photography, digital art and printmaking. Sonny negotiates Western and Kwakwaka’wakw principles of art making as a means of exploring his family history and the experiences of being an Indigenous person in the colonial state of Canada.
Having cut his teeth in Vancouver's art scene, Assu packed up and moved to Montreal to be with the love of his life. Five years later, along with his wife and beautiful daughter, Sonny moved back to BC, eventually settling back "home" in unceded Liǥwildaʼx̱w territory (Campbell River, BC.).
Assu received his BFA from the Emily Carr University in 2002 and was the recipient of their distinguished alumni award in 2006. He received the BC Creative Achievement Award in First Nations art...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Sorcière
By Jean-Paul Riopelle
Located in Westmount, QC
Jean-Paul Riopelle, 1923-2002, Canadian
Sorcière
Original lithograph in colours
19 x 23 in
signed and numbered 26/75 in the lower margin;
titled on the reverse;
framed
RIOPELLE, Yse...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Canada - Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Polychromée C
By Alfred Pellan
Located in Westmount, QC
Alfred Pellan, Canadian, 1906-1988
Polychromée - C, 1973
silkscreen
35 x 23 in ( sheet )
88.9 x 58.4 cm
Inscriptions
signed, titled, dated 1973 and numbered (ed of 100) in the lower ...
Category
1970s Canada - Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
There is Hope, If We Rise (Idle No More)
By Sonny Assu
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Sonny Assu (Liǥwildaʼx̱w of the Kwakwaka’wakw Nations) was raised in North Delta, BC, over 250 km away from his home ancestral home on Vancouver Island. Having been raised as your everyday average suburbanite, it wasn't until he was eight years old that he discovered his Liǥwildax̱w/Kwakwaka’wakw heritage. Later in life, this discovery would be the conceptual focal point that helped launch his unique art practice.
Assu's artistic practice is diverse: spanning painting, sculpture, photography, digital art and printmaking. Sonny negotiates Western and Kwakwaka’wakw principles of art making as a means of exploring his family history and the experiences of being an Indigenous person in the colonial state of Canada.
Having cut his teeth in Vancouver's art scene, Assu packed up and moved to Montreal to be with the love of his life. Five years later, along with his wife and beautiful daughter, Sonny moved back to BC, eventually settling back "home" in unceded Liǥwildaʼx̱w territory (Campbell River, BC.).
Assu received his BFA from the Emily Carr University in 2002 and was the recipient of their distinguished alumni award in 2006. He received the BC Creative Achievement Award in First Nations art...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
There is Hope, If We Rise (Lead)
By Sonny Assu
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Sonny Assu (Liǥwildaʼx̱w of the Kwakwaka’wakw Nations) was raised in North Delta, BC, over 250 km away from his home ancestral home on Vancouver Island. Having been raised as your ev...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
#fangasm, Pabs was TOTALLY inspired by meeeeeeeee111!
By Sonny Assu
Located in Montreal, Quebec
The title "Interventions On The Imaginary" is a clear reference to Marcia Crosby’s essay, "The Construction of the Imaginary Indian", and situates itself within the realm of remix cu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Canada - Abstract Prints
Materials
Digital
Diffraction, trace #2
By Laurent Lamarche
Located in Montreal, Quebec
For years, Laurent Lamarche has questioned the relationship between nature and artifice by producing fictional living organisms. Lamarche’s practice explores the following question, ...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Prints
Materials
Digital
Celly 2
By Laurent Lamarche
Located in Montreal, Quebec
For years, Laurent Lamarche has questioned the relationship between nature and artifice by producing fictional living organisms. Lamarche’s practice explores the following question, ...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Prints
Materials
Plexiglass, Digital
Cocoon
By Laurent Lamarche
Located in Montreal, Quebec
For years, Laurent Lamarche has questioned the relationship between nature and artifice by producing fictional living organisms. Lamarche’s practice explores the following question, ...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Prints
Materials
Plexiglass, Digital
Éclosion
By Laurent Lamarche
Located in Montreal, Quebec
For years, Laurent Lamarche has questioned the relationship between nature and artifice by producing fictional living organisms. Lamarche’s practice explores the following question, ...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Prints
Materials
Plexiglass, Digital
Le pont du Havre en construction
By Marc-Aurèle Fortin
Located in Westmount, QC
Marc-Aurèle Fortin, 1888-1970, Canadian
Le pont du Havre en construction, c. 1940
Etching
8 x 11 in
INSCRIPTIONS
Numbered and titled Lower left “Le pont du Havre en construction”;
in...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Canada - Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Harold Town "Grey Stretch"
By Harold Town
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Harold Town (1924-1990) is renowned in Canada for his prolific, versatile and dynamic body of work.
Town was dubbed the "Picasso of Canada" for his ever-changing aesthetic and pere...
Category
1970s Abstract Canada - Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
You mess with me, you mess with my cousins
By Sonny Assu
Located in Montreal, Quebec
The title "Interventions On The Imaginary" is a clear reference to Marcia Crosby’s essay, "The Construction of the Imaginary Indian", and situates itself within the realm of remix cu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Canada - Abstract Prints
Materials
Archival Paper, Digital
Blue Grey Stretch
By Harold Town
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Harold Town (1924-1990) is renowned in Canada for his prolific, versatile and dynamic body of work.
Town was dubbed the "Picasso of Canada" for his ever-changing aesthetic and pere...
Category
1970s Abstract Canada - Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Nuit Blanche à Barcelone 2
By Michel Piquette
Located in Montreal, Quebec
It is the luminous colours of Michel Piquette’s works that first catch the eye. His chromatic circles that stir up vision take root in an aesthetic tr...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Prints
Materials
Paper, Digital
The paradise Syndrome, Voyage #20
By Sonny Assu
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Titled after an episode of Star Trek, The Paradise Syndrome features new work by Sonny Assu. Combining Indigenous content with appropriated images and text from marine chart maps, covers from Choose Your Own Adventure gamebooks, and science fiction television programs, this exhibition continues Assu’s exploration around the intersection of Indigenous Peoples and North American pop culture.
In the Star Trek episode The Paradise Syndrome, Captain Kirk suffers from amnesia when he arrives on an alien planet, which is inhabited by a society of people who resemble Indigenous Peoples in North America. Kirk is found by a group of women who believe that he is a god and then take him back to their community. At the end of the episode, he is attacked when they realize he is not a god. Spock and McCoy are transported to his rescue, but in the midst of the conflict, a tribal priestess who Kirk developed a relationship with, is killed.
In this exhibition, Assu presents two series of digitally altered prints inspired by fact and fiction. The first series depicts ovoids superimposed onto digital scans of paintings by Emily Carr and A.Y. Jackson, framed by gamebook covers. The prints feature alien forms descending, referencing a Star Trek: Voyager episode titled Tattoo.
In this episode, Chakotay meets the Sky Spirits, aliens who visited Earth thousands of years ago. They met nomadic humans who had great respect for the land and other animals. The Sky Spirits were so impressed that they gifted the nomads with an inheritance that would allow them to thrive and protect their world.
When the Sky Spirits returned thousands of years later, they found that the weapons and diseases of invaders from other lands had decimated the nomadic ‘Inheritors’. Chakotay’s tattoo was the mark of an Inheritor and signaled to the Sky Spirits that some of the Inheritors had survived.
Assu’s gamebook prints expand on this fictional story, incorporating aspects of our colonial history in the Pacific Northwest. This exhibition is a playful investigation of challenging issues. By incorporating nostalgic gamebooks from the 1980s, Assu alludes to the discovery of his Kwawaka’wakw heritage, which has recently led him back to living in his ancestral land.
The second series of Assu’s prints in this exhibition depict digital illustrations, inspired by Indigenous copper shield symbols, that are superimposed onto navigational marine maps...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Nuit Blanche à Tel Aviv
By Michel Piquette
Located in Montreal, Quebec
It is the luminous colours of Michel Piquette’s works that first catch the eye. His chromatic circles that stir up vision take root in an aesthetic tradition a few decades old alread...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Prints
Materials
Aluminum
Eulalie
By Jacques Hurtubise
Located in Westmount, QC
Jacques Hurtubise, Canadian, 1939-2014
Eulalie, 1966
Serigraph
26 x 22 in
titled and numbered (ed of 100) lower left;
Signed and dated 66 lower right.
Category
1980s Canada - Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Nuit Blanche à Paris (1)
By Michel Piquette
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Text by Anaïs Castro
It is the luminous colours of Michel Piquette’s works that first catch the eye. His chromatic circles that stir up vision take...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Prints
Materials
Digital
Meet It Halfway
By Jessica Houston
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Going North in the Work of Jessica Houston
By L. Sasha Gora
Jessica Houston’s most recent works look north. What is north? Where is it? Is it a fixed place, or something else?
He...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Prints
Materials
Color
Nuit Blanche à Dubai
By Michel Piquette
Located in Montreal, Quebec
It is the luminous colours of Michel Piquette’s works that first catch the eye. His chromatic circles that stir up vision take root in an aesthetic tradition a few decades old alread...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Prints
Materials
Archival Paper, Digital
Autres mouches no 2
By Jean-Paul Riopelle
Located in Westmount, QC
Jean-Paul Riopelle, 1923-2002, Canadian
Autres mouches no 2, 1985
Lithograph on Japan paper
20 1/2 x 26 3/4 in
Signed and numbered in pencil, edition of 75
Catalogue raisonné referen...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Canada - Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
There is Hope, If We Rise (Resist)
By Sonny Assu
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Sonny Assu (Liǥwildaʼx̱w of the Kwakwaka’wakw Nations) was raised in North Delta, BC, over 250 km away from his home ancestral home on Vancouver Island. Having been raised as your everyday average suburbanite, it wasn't until he was eight years old that he discovered his Liǥwildax̱w/Kwakwaka’wakw heritage. Later in life, this discovery would be the conceptual focal point that helped launch his unique art practice.
Assu's artistic practice is diverse: spanning painting, sculpture, photography, digital art and printmaking. Sonny negotiates Western and Kwakwaka’wakw principles of art making as a means of exploring his family history and the experiences of being an Indigenous person in the colonial state of Canada.
Having cut his teeth in Vancouver's art scene, Assu packed up and moved to Montreal to be with the love of his life. Five years later, along with his wife and beautiful daughter, Sonny moved back to BC, eventually settling back "home" in unceded Liǥwildaʼx̱w territory (Campbell River, BC.).
Assu received his BFA from the Emily Carr University in 2002 and was the recipient of their distinguished alumni award in 2006. He received the BC Creative Achievement Award in First Nations art...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
There is Hope, If We Rise (Confront)
By Sonny Assu
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Sonny Assu (Liǥwildaʼx̱w of the Kwakwaka’wakw Nations) was raised in North Delta, BC, over 250 km away from his home ancestral home on Vancouver Island. Having been raised as your everyday average suburbanite, it wasn't until he was eight years old that he discovered his Liǥwildax̱w/Kwakwaka’wakw heritage. Later in life, this discovery would be the conceptual focal point that helped launch his unique art practice.
Assu's artistic practice is diverse: spanning painting, sculpture, photography, digital art and printmaking. Sonny negotiates Western and Kwakwaka’wakw principles of art making as a means of exploring his family history and the experiences of being an Indigenous person in the colonial state of Canada.
Having cut his teeth in Vancouver's art scene, Assu packed up and moved to Montreal to be with the love of his life. Five years later, along with his wife and beautiful daughter, Sonny moved back to BC, eventually settling back "home" in unceded Liǥwildaʼx̱w territory (Campbell River, BC.).
Assu received his BFA from the Emily Carr University in 2002 and was the recipient of their distinguished alumni award in 2006. He received the BC Creative Achievement Award in First Nations art...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
There is Hope, If We Rise (Round Dance)
By Sonny Assu
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Sonny Assu (Liǥwildaʼx̱w of the Kwakwaka’wakw Nations) was raised in North Delta, BC, over 250 km away from his home ancestral home on Vancouver Island. Having been raised as your everyday average suburbanite, it wasn't until he was eight years old that he discovered his Liǥwildax̱w/Kwakwaka’wakw heritage. Later in life, this discovery would be the conceptual focal point that helped launch his unique art practice.
Assu's artistic practice is diverse: spanning painting, sculpture, photography, digital art and printmaking. Sonny negotiates Western and Kwakwaka’wakw principles of art making as a means of exploring his family history and the experiences of being an Indigenous person in the colonial state of Canada.
Having cut his teeth in Vancouver's art scene, Assu packed up and moved to Montreal to be with the love of his life. Five years later, along with his wife and beautiful daughter, Sonny moved back to BC, eventually settling back "home" in unceded Liǥwildaʼx̱w territory (Campbell River, BC.).
Assu received his BFA from the Emily Carr University in 2002 and was the recipient of their distinguished alumni award in 2006. He received the BC Creative Achievement Award in First Nations art...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
There is Hope, If We Rise (Learn)
By Sonny Assu
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Sonny Assu (Liǥwildaʼx̱w of the Kwakwaka’wakw Nations) was raised in North Delta, BC, over 250 km away from his home ancestral home on Vancouver Island. Having been raised as your everyday average suburbanite, it wasn't until he was eight years old that he discovered his Liǥwildax̱w/Kwakwaka’wakw heritage. Later in life, this discovery would be the conceptual focal point that helped launch his unique art practice.
Assu's artistic practice is diverse: spanning painting, sculpture, photography, digital art and printmaking. Sonny negotiates Western and Kwakwaka’wakw principles of art making as a means of exploring his family history and the experiences of being an Indigenous person in the colonial state of Canada.
Having cut his teeth in Vancouver's art scene, Assu packed up and moved to Montreal to be with the love of his life. Five years later, along with his wife and beautiful daughter, Sonny moved back to BC, eventually settling back "home" in unceded Liǥwildaʼx̱w territory (Campbell River, BC.).
Assu received his BFA from the Emily Carr University in 2002 and was the recipient of their distinguished alumni award in 2006. He received the BC Creative Achievement Award in First Nations art...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
There is Hope, If We Rise (Idle Know More)
By Sonny Assu
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Sonny Assu (Liǥwildaʼx̱w of the Kwakwaka’wakw Nations) was raised in North Delta, BC, over 250 km away from his home ancestral home on Vancouver Island. Having been raised as your ev...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
There is Hope, If We Rise (Challenge Stereotypes)
By Sonny Assu
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Sonny Assu (Liǥwildaʼx̱w of the Kwakwaka’wakw Nations) was raised in North Delta, BC, over 250 km away from his home ancestral home on Vancouver Island. Having been raised as your ev...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
There is Hope, If We Rise (Decolonize)
By Sonny Assu
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Sonny Assu (Liǥwildaʼx̱w of the Kwakwaka’wakw Nations) was raised in North Delta, BC, over 250 km away from his home ancestral home on Vancouver Island. Having been raised as your ev...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Autres mouches no 1
By Jean-Paul Riopelle
Located in Westmount, QC
Jean-Paul Riopelle, 1923-2002, Canadian
Autres mouches no 1, 1985
Lithograph on Japan paper
20 1/2 x 26 3/4 in
Signed and numbered in pencil, edition of 75
Catalogue raisonné referen...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Canada - Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Blue Raspberry Stretch
By Harold Town
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Harold Town (1924-1990) is renowned in Canada for his prolific, versatile and dynamic body of work.
Town was dubbed the "Picasso of Canada" for his ever-changing aesthetic and pere...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Canada - Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Autres mouches no 4
By Jean-Paul Riopelle
Located in Westmount, QC
Jean-Paul Riopelle, 1923-2002, Canadian
Autres mouches no 4, 1985
Lithograph on Japan paper
20 1/2 x 26 3/4 in
Signed and numbered in pencil, edition of 75
Catalogue raisonné referen...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Canada - Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Autres mouches no 3
By Jean-Paul Riopelle
Located in Westmount, QC
Jean-Paul Riopelle, 1923-2002, Canadian
Autres mouches no 3, 1985
Lithograph on Japan paper
20 1/2 x 26 3/4 in
Signed and numbered in pencil, edition of 75
Catalogue raisonné referen...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Canada - Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Ductile 2
By Laurent Lamarche
Located in Montreal, Quebec
For years, Laurent Lamarche has questioned the relationship between nature and artifice by producing fictional living organisms. Lamarche’s practice explores the following question, ...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Prints
Materials
Plexiglass, Digital
Mauve Magic
By Harold Town
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Harold Town (1924-1990) remains one of the most accomplished and fascinating characters from the "Painters Eleven" group.
While Town coined the group's name (based on the number of artists who simply attended their first meeting) his output was diverse, ever-changing and not restricted to painting.
Somewhat ironically, Town's first significant body of work, which established his reputation, was a group of monotypes - which he called "Single Autographic Prints"
Town was introduced to lithography by fellow Painters Eleven member Oscar Cahen...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Canada - Abstract Prints
Materials
Monotype
Auprès de mon lac n4
By Jean-Paul Riopelle
Located in Westmount, QC
Jean-Paul Riopelle, 1923-2002, Canadian
Auprès de mon lac n4
1985
Lithograph on Japan paper
20 ½ x 26 ¾ in
52 x 68 cm
Signed and numbered in pencil (edition of 75)
Catalogue raiso...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Canada - Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Nuit Blanche à Tokyo
By Michel Piquette
Located in Montreal, Quebec
It is the luminous colours of Michel Piquette’s works that first catch the eye. His chromatic circles that stir up vision take root in an aesthetic tr...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Prints
Materials
Digital
The paradise Syndrome, Voyage #30
By Sonny Assu
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Titled after an episode of Star Trek, The Paradise Syndrome features new work by Sonny Assu. Combining Indigenous content with appropriated images and text from marine chart...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
The paradise Syndrome, Voyage #37
By Sonny Assu
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Titled after an episode of Star Trek, The Paradise Syndrome features new work by Sonny Assu. Combining Indigenous content with appropriated images and text from marine chart maps, covers from Choose Your Own Adventure gamebooks, and science fiction television programs, this exhibition continues Assu’s exploration around the intersection of Indigenous Peoples and North American pop culture.
In the Star Trek episode The Paradise Syndrome, Captain Kirk suffers from amnesia when he arrives on an alien planet, which is inhabited by a society of people who resemble Indigenous Peoples in North America. Kirk is found by a group of women who believe that he is a god and then take him back to their community. At the end of the episode, he is attacked when they realize he is not a god. Spock and McCoy are transported to his rescue, but in the midst of the conflict, a tribal priestess who Kirk developed a relationship with, is killed.
In this exhibition, Assu presents two series of digitally altered prints inspired by fact and fiction. The first series depicts ovoids superimposed onto digital scans of paintings by Emily Carr and A.Y. Jackson, framed by gamebook covers. The prints feature alien forms descending, referencing a Star Trek: Voyager episode titled Tattoo.
In this episode, Chakotay meets the Sky Spirits, aliens who visited Earth thousands of years ago. They met nomadic humans who had great respect for the land and other animals. The Sky Spirits were so impressed that they gifted the nomads with an inheritance that would allow them to thrive and protect their world.
When the Sky Spirits returned thousands of years later, they found that the weapons and diseases of invaders from other lands had decimated the nomadic ‘Inheritors’. Chakotay’s tattoo was the mark of an Inheritor and signaled to the Sky Spirits that some of the Inheritors had survived.
Assu’s gamebook prints expand on this fictional story, incorporating aspects of our colonial history in the Pacific Northwest. This exhibition is a playful investigation of challenging issues. By incorporating nostalgic gamebooks from the 1980s, Assu alludes to the discovery of his Kwawaka’wakw heritage, which has recently led him back to living in his ancestral land.
The second series of Assu’s prints in this exhibition depict digital illustrations, inspired by Indigenous copper shield symbols, that are superimposed onto navigational marine maps...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
C3H6-HG-05
By Laurent Lamarche
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Text by Sevan Injejikian
Nestled between artistic innovation and scientific discovery, Laurent Lamarche’s work explores the boundaries between art and science, nature and artifice, ...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Prints
Materials
Plexiglass, Digital
Éclosion
By Laurent Lamarche
Located in Montreal, Quebec
For years, Laurent Lamarche has questioned the relationship between nature and artifice by producing fictional living organisms. Lamarche’s practice explores the following question, ...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Prints
Materials
Plexiglass, Digital
Plasma-02
By Laurent Lamarche
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Text by Sevan Injejikian
Nestled between artistic innovation and scientific discovery, Laurent Lamarche’s work explores the boundaries between art and science, nature and artifice, and fact and fiction. Lamarche crumples, heats, sculpts, scans, crops, and projects recuperated plastic – his material of choice – to create images and sculptures that are at once ambiguous and evocative.
Lamarche’s manipulation of plastic as a medium retains a sense of play. The resulting works include an oversized sculpture...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Prints
Materials
Digital
Plasma-01
By Laurent Lamarche
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Text by Sevan Injejikian
Nestled between artistic innovation and scientific discovery, Laurent Lamarche’s work explores the boundaries between art and science, nature and artifice, and fact and fiction. Lamarche crumples, heats, sculpts, scans, crops, and projects recuperated plastic – his material of choice – to create images and sculptures that are at once ambiguous and evocative.
Lamarche’s manipulation of plastic as a medium retains a sense of play. The resulting works include an oversized sculpture...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Prints
Materials
Plexiglass, Digital
"The only thing more pathetic than Indians on TV is Indians watching Indians...
By Sonny Assu
Located in Montreal, Quebec
The title "Interventions On The Imaginary" is a clear reference to Marcia Crosby’s essay, "The Construction of the Imaginary Indian", and situates itself within the realm of remix cu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Canada - Abstract Prints
Materials
Archival Paper, Digital
It was, like, a super long time ago that ppl were here, right?
By Sonny Assu
Located in Montreal, Quebec
The title "Interventions On The Imaginary" is a clear reference to Marcia Crosby’s essay, "The Construction of the Imaginary Indian", and situates itself within the realm of remix cu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Canada - Abstract Prints
Materials
Archival Paper, Digital
Berlin
By Michel Piquette
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Michel Piquette: chromatic cities
By Anaïs Castro
It is the luminous colours of Michel Piquette’s works that first catch the eye. His chromatic circles that stir up vision take r...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Canada - Abstract Prints
Materials
Aluminum
The Search for Paradise Continues
Located in Toronto, ON
Limited Edition Serigraph of 50
Hand Signed by Diana Christensen
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Canada - Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Storm Approaching XI
Located in Toronto, ON
10.5" x 10.5" Unframed
Limited Edition Serigraph of 1
Hand Signed by Mark Kellett
2007
Category
Early 2000s Canada - Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Storm Approaching XIII
Located in Toronto, ON
10.5" x 10.5" Unframed
Limited Edition Serigraph of 1
Hand Signed by Mark Kellett
2007
Category
Early 2000s Canada - Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Storm Approaching X
Located in Toronto, ON
10.5" x 10.5" Unframed
Limited Edition Serigraph of 1
Hand Signed by Mark Kellett
2007
Category
Early 2000s Canada - Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
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