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Item Ships From: Canada
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 refer...
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
untitled
By Rita Letendre
Located in Westmount, QC
Rita Letendre, Canadian, 1928-2021
Serigraph
25 x 22 in
signed and numbered in pencil, edition of 250
framed
Category
1970s Canada - Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Beware of the intentions of well meaning Aliens
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
Lines and Loops
By Harold Town
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Harold Town (1924-1990) is one of Canada's most influential and prolific artists. He also remains one of the best-known and most intriguing artists from the "Painters Eleven" group. ...
Category
1950s Modern Canada - Abstract Prints
Materials
Monotype
Stipes
By Kenneth Noland
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Kenneth Noland (1924 – 2010) is one of the most important artists and contributors to the evolution of American abstraction. He is one of the most beloved and enduring figures in the...
Category
1980s Color-Field Canada - Abstract Prints
Materials
Monotype
$11,500
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
Folies-Bergères
By Alfred Pellan
Located in Westmount, QC
Alfred Pellan, Canadian, 1906-1988
Folies-Bergères, 1974
Serigraph
20.75 x 16 in ( image )
52.7 x 40.6 cm
signed, titled, dated 1974 and numbered (edition of 150) in the lower margi...
Category
1970s 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
Lied à Émile Nelligan. Planche 5
By Jean-Paul Riopelle
Located in Westmount, QC
Jean-Paul Riopelle, 1923-2002, Canadian
Lied à Émile Nelligan. Planche 5, 1977 -1979
Lithograph
22 x 30 in
Signed in pencil “Riopelle” lower right and numbered lower left (edition of...
Category
1970s Abstract Canada - Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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
Game-01, Digital on Paper
By Yehan Wang
Located in Yardley, PA
Welcome to Yehanart ! WHAT YOU WILL RECEIVE: The artwork images you see above - Title: "Game-01". It is a giclee limited edition print...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Prints
Materials
Digital
Fusion-08, Digital on Paper
By Yehan Wang
Located in Yardley, PA
The artwork images you see above - Title: "Fusion-08". It is a giclee limited edition print from one of my original digital drawings, pri...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Prints
Materials
Digital
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 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
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
"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
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 refer...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Canada - Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Unknown Unknown Unknowns
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
My painting practice began with subverting the idea of a still life to create an absurd experience where the presence of carefully observed and exaggerated absurd forms painted from ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Prints
Materials
Photographic Paper
Le Clocher
By Jean-Paul Riopelle
Located in Westmount, QC
Jean-Paul Riopelle, 1923-2002, Canadian
Le Clocher, 1989
Lithograph on Japan paper
22.4 x 30.3 in
INSCRIPTIONS
signed and numbered in pencil
Catalogue raisonné reference: Y. Riopelle...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Canada - Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Transmutation
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
Vesicle
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
Twilight
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
Prism
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
Lumo
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
Bounded Interval
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
Nuit Blanche à Delhi
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
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
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
Untitled n3 1985 - 1991
By Jean-Paul Riopelle
Located in Westmount, QC
Jean-Paul Riopelle, 1923-2002, Canadian
UNTITLED N3 (1985 - 1991)
Etching
19 3/4 x 25 3/4 in (image); 11 3/4 x 15 1/2 in (papier)
30 x 39.5 cm (image); 50 x 65 cm (papier)
Signed l...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Canada - Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
GoTo
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
Network Flow
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
Stimulacra
By Franco DeFrancesca
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Born in 1967 in Toronto and a graduate of OCAD and University of Guelph, multidisciplinary artist Franco DeFrancesca investigates the links between art and technology, using digital ...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Prints
Materials
Resin, Panel, Digital Pigment
Differential
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
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
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
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
The paradise Syndrome, Voyage #38
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
Auprès de mon lac n5
By Jean-Paul Riopelle
Located in Westmount, QC
Jean-Paul Riopelle, 1923-2002, Canadian
Auprès de mon lac n5
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
#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
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 paradise Syndrome, Voyage #36
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
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
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
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
Zone de contact 1
By Laurent Lamarche
Located in Montreal, Quebec
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
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
Où nul ours n’est chassé
By Jean-Paul Riopelle
Located in Westmount, QC
Jean-Paul Riopelle, 1923-2002, Canadian
Où nul ours n’est chassé , 1985-1989
Lithograph in Colours on Arches Wove Paper
18 ½ x 25 ½ in
47 x 65 cm
INSCRIPTIONS
Hand numbered in penci...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Canada - Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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
Auprès de mon lac n7
By Jean-Paul Riopelle
Located in Westmount, QC
Jean-Paul Riopelle, 1923-2002, Canadian
Auprès de mon lac n7
1985
Lithograph on Japan paper
20 ½ x 26 ¾ in
52 x 68 cm
Signed and numbered in pencil (edition of 75)
Catalogue raison...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Canada - Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The paradise Syndrome, Voyage #32
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
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
Heritage Of All
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
Auprès de mon lac n3
By Jean-Paul Riopelle
Located in Westmount, QC
Jean-Paul Riopelle, 1923-2002, Canadian
Auprès de mon lac n3 , 1985
Original lithograph in colours on Japan paper
20 ½ x 26 ¾ in
38 x 47.8 cm (image); 52 x 68 cm (paper)
INSCRIPTIONS...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Canada - Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The paradise Syndrome, Voyage #9
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
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
C3H6-PLEX-01
By Laurent Lamarche
Located in Montreal, Quebec
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. Lama...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Prints
Materials
Plexiglass, Digital
Nuit Blanche à Paris (4)
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 tak...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Prints
Materials
Digital
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