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Shuvinai Ashoona : mapping worlds / editor, Gaëtane Verna ; authors, Shary Boyle [and many others].

Title
Shuvinai Ashoona : mapping worlds / editor, Gaëtane Verna ; authors, Shary Boyle [and many others].
Publication
  • Munich : Hirmer ; Toronto : The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, [2021]
  • ©2021

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Additional Authors
  • Ashoona, Shuvinai, 1961-
  • Boyle, Shary,
  • Confederation Centre Art Gallery, host institution.
  • Glenbow Museum, host institution.
  • Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery, host institution.
  • Power Plant (Art gallery), host institution.
  • Vancouver Art Gallery, host institution.
  • Verna, Gaëtane,
  • Yukon Arts Centre, host institution.
Description
343 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits; 32 cm.
Summary
Shuvinai Ashoona (born 1961) is a third-generation Inuit artist based in Kinngait, Nunavut, Canada. Best known for her highly personal and imaginative iconography, Shuvinai Ashoona's imagery ranges from closely observed naturalistic scenes of her Arctic home to monstrous and fantastical visions. Existing somewhere between dystopic and utopic, Shuvinai Ashoona?s earthly and extraterrestrial worlds exist within a kinder intergalactic future. The book provides insight into her practice, with essays from Canadian and international authors, reflections on specific drawings, a select exhibition history and large-format illustrations, including installation images from The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada. Exhibition: Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada (31.10.2019 - 18.01.2020) / Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (22.02. - 24.05.2020) / Yukon Arts Centre, Whitehorse, YT, Canada (04.06. - 31.08.2020).
Alternative Title
  • Mapping worlds
  • Suuvinai Asuuna : nunanngualiurniq nunarjuannguanik
Subject
  • Ashoona, Shuvinai, 1961 > Exhibitions
  • Ashoona, Shuvinai, 1961-
  • Inuit art > Exhibitions
  • Inuit art
  • Inuit drawing > Exhibitions
  • Inuit drawing
Genre/Form
Exhibition catalogs.
Note
  • Parallel title in Inuktitut.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Indexed In (note)
  • Indexed in the Native American Artists Resource Collection Online, Billie Jane Baguley Library and Archives, Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, at the artist name level (July 9, 2021)
Language (note)
  • Texts in English and Inuktitut.
Exhibitions (note)
  • Catalog of an exhibition held at The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, January 26 - May 12, 2019; Confederation Center of Arts, Charlottetown, June 8 - September 15, 2019; Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montreal, October 31, 2019 - January 18, 2020; Vancouver Art Gallery, February 22 - August 30, 2020; Yukon Arts Centre, Whitehorse, September 12 - November 21, 2020; Glenbow Museum, Calgary, February 1 - April 25, 2021.
Contents
Mapping worlds / Gaëtane Verna -- Acknowledgements / Gaëtane Verna, Director, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery -- A message from the West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative / Pauloosie Kowmageak, President, West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative -- Shuvinai Ashoona: another world out there / Nancy Campbell -- Exhibition views [color installation photography of "Shuvinai Ashoona: Mapping Worlds" at the following venues: The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, 2019; Confederation Centre of the Arts, Charlottetown, 2019; Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal, 2019-2020; Vancouver Art Gallery, 2020; and Yukon Arts Centre, Whitehorse, 2020] -- According to Shuvinai / Tarralik Duffy -- Drawn into the thinking mind / Meeka Walsh -- Shuvinai Ashoona's perspectival fluidity / Michelle Gay -- Collision course: Shuvinai's Ashoona's unique interpretation of Titanic / Robert Kardosh -- Catalogue of works with commentaries on selected works / by Shary Boyle, Laura Demers, Jacques Des Rochers, Tarah Hogue, Chistine Lalonde, Frances Loeffler, Roger Malbert, Gerald McMaster, Sarah Milroy, Wanda Nanibush, and Jocelyn Piirainen -- Composition (People, Animals and the World Holding Hands) [commentary] / Roger Malbert -- Compositions (Titanic Plus Nascopie and Noah's Ark) [commentary] / by Gerald McMaster -- All Kinds of Spiders in Different Views [commentary] / by Christine Lalonde -- Sinking Titanic [commentary] / by Jocelyn Piirainen -- Earth Transformations[commentary] / by Sarah Milroy -- Shovelling Worlds [commentary] / by Wanda Nanibush -- Happy Mother [commentary] / by Jacques Des Rochers -- Untitled (Birthing Scene) [commentary] / Shary Boyle in conversation with Shuvinai Ashoona -- Audience [commentary] / Tarah Hogue -- Composition (Hunting Monsters) [commentary] / by Frances Loeffler -- Untitled [commentary] / by Laura Demers -- Tracing Shuvinai Ashoona's life and work / Justine Kohleal -- Exhibitions [of Shuvinai Ashoona] -- Prominent collections [which hold artwork by Shuvinai Ashoona] -- Selected bibliography -- Biographical notes -- Inuktitut translations.
Call Number
N6549.5.A84
ISBN
  • 9783777434520
  • 3777434523
LCCN
9783777434520
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries