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Kavavaow MannomeeFish Become Birds1999
1999
About the Item
This artwork titled "Fish Become Birds" 1999 is an original colors stonecut on thin tissue paper by Canadian/ Inuit artist Kavavaow (Kavavau) Mannomee, b.1958. It is hand signed, titled, located, dated, described and numbered 4/50 in pencil by the artist. The subject size is 16 x 23.25 inches, sheet size is 24.5 x 29 inches. It is in excellent condition.
About the artist:
Qavavau born in Brandon, Manitoba in 1958 where his mother, Paunichea, was hospitalized for treatment of tuberculosis. He returned to Cape Dorset as a very young child and has lived there since.
Qavavau has demonstrated a range of stylistic abilities over the years – from the very literal to the more expressive. His work is idiosyncratic and often amusing in his depictions of Inuit legends and mythology, Arctic wildlife and contemporary aspects of Inuit life.
Qavavau is the latest among the second generation to attract critical acclaim from the contemporary arts audience in the south. He and Shuvinai Ashoona have been profiled, along with Nick Sikkuark of Gjoa Haven, in the Winnipeg-based arts magazine, Border Crossings. He traveled to Toronto in June of 2008 for his first solo exhibition of original drawings, and in 2009 to Vancouver for another exhibition featuring his contemporary work. He has been invited to attend an opening of this work in Victoria in the fall of 2012.
For several years Qavavau has worked for the Kinngait Studios as a printmaker – first in the lithography studio and more recently in the stonecut studio. He is an accomplished and precise printmaker who enjoys the opportunity to demonstrate printmaking techniques to young artists and visitors to the studio.
His works are held in several museums, including the Ackland Art Museum, the Canadian Museum of Civilization, the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the National Gallery of Canada, the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, the University of Michigan Museum of Art, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and the National Museum of the American Indian.
EXHIBITIONS:
1988, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1993, Cape Dorset Print Collection (printmaker)
1994 (annual collection)
(illustrated catalogue)
1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, Cape Dorset Graphics
1994, 1995 (annual collection)
(illustrated catalogue)
March 1990 Art Inuit, l'Art des Esquimaux du Canada
Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai
at Maison Falleur, Cambrai
France
April 1990 Art Inuit
Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai
at Palais de l'Europe
Le Touquet, France
July 1990 Art Inuit
Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai
at Thonon les Bains
France
Nov - Dec 1990 Art Inuit: Autour de la Collection de Cape
Dorset 1990
Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai
at Centre Culturel Canadien
Paris, France
March - April 1991 Art Inuit
Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai
at Le Theatre
La Ciotat, France
May 1991 Inuit Music in Art: Singing and Dancing and Playing
Feheley Fine Arts
Toronto, Ontario
May - June 1991 Art Inuit
Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai
at La Halle aux Bles
Saint Malo, France
October - December 1991 Art Inuit
Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai
at Galerie Maite Aubert
Le Havre, France
Nov - Dec 1991 Art Inuit: Autour de la Collection de Cape
Dorset 1991
Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai
at Le Colombier
Ville D'Avray, France
Feb - Apr 1992 Art Inuit
Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai
at Galerie Montador
Dieppe, France
Nov 1993 - Jan 1994 Contemporary Inuit Drawings
Muscarelle Museum of Art
College of William and Mary
Williamsburg, Virginia, U.S.A.
(illustrated catalogue)
July 1994 Arctic Spirit
35 Years of Canadian Inuit Art
Frye Art Museum
Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.
Sept - Oct 1994 Kunst van de Inuit Eskimo's
Gemeentelijk Kunstcentrum
Huis Hellemans
Edegem, Belgium
(illustrated brochure)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
April - May 1994 Kavavaow Mannomee-Original Drawings
Albers Gallery
San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
- Creator:Kavavaow Mannomee (1958, Canadian, Inuit)
- Creation Year:1999
- Dimensions:Height: 24.5 in (62.23 cm)Width: 29 in (73.66 cm)Depth: 0.01 in (0.26 mm)
- Period:
- Condition:
- Gallery Location:San Francisco, CA
- Reference Number:
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