#canadian art

[weepingwidar]

Peter Ferguson (Canadian, 1968) - The Grotto at St. Michel (n.d.)

#peter ferguson #art #painting #canadian art

[piizunn]

ᓄᐦᑕᐃᐧᕀ ᐊᐢᑯᑖᐢᑯᐱᓱᐣ nohtawiy askotâskopison, My Father’s Cradleboard by Morgan Possberg Denne

The New Gallery, November 18 - December 22, 2023

“Cradleboards have been used for thousands of years by our ancestors to carry and love for our future generations. They have protected us, acted as an external womb, and given us a place as children to watch our parents' culture and learn from a safe distance. I’ve always wondered if the fact that neither my father, his father, or myself was ever put in a cradleboard may have had a long term impact on our development, personhood, and our coping mechanisms to the ways that colonialism, residential schools and the foster care system has affected my family.

Now as an adult I deeply wish I could rewind the clock and put myself, and my father before me, and his father before him in a cradleboard as a child. To softly sing songs to us, give us safety, and to give us a connection to our culture in a safe environment. Maybe this would fix things. As kids when we were supposed to be kept safe and playing in the woods we were instead being prepped for the meat factory - the eternal meat grinder of colonialism.

The western world teaches us to push aside this childhood imagining and innocence - “These things can’t be undone!”, but what if they could? In another world somebody took better care of us, in another time we learned to drum and sing and dance, in another place we were listened to by adults who had the capacity to love and care for us.

These hot chest and aching throat feelings, the times of biting back angry tears and saying “It’s fine” have to count for something….right?”

“Morgan Possberg Denne is Two-Spirit millennial scoop and foster care survivor; with settler, Cree, Metis, and Chippewa blood connections. They have grown up in treaty 7 territory, and have relatives in southern and northern Ontario. Morgan creates imaginative, illustrative objects which could be seen as pieces of possible narratives, different ways to connect with the past and potential futures through layers of abstraction with no right or wrong answer. What matters to them is not accurately recreating the past or to predict the future, but rather to capture an inner truth and a possible alternative reality of colonial experiences. In a sense, creating new culture from a series of “what-ifs” and new stories / lore. Their work has been recently shown at the Confederation Centre for the Arts and Gallery Gachet.”

(Photos belong to me and the description and artist bio are courtesy of The New Gallery’s website)

[IDs:

1. a large wall hanging made from fish leather,

2. a close up of the same piece. the artwork has faint text cut out of the green tea tanned fish that reads “hey it’s not your fault, you know that right?”

3. a photo of the space showing a video projected onto several fish skins, a table with a vest and a hat made of fish leather, and on the table are cartons made from rawhide.

4. a coatrack on which are a rawhide hunting ruffle and rawhide fishing net resembling a badminton racket

5. a shelf seen in the background of image 3 containing a astro-turf shirt, a hand gun and pocket knife made from rawhide and a fish leather circular clip with a piece of dark hair hanging off the shelf.]

#my picks #morgan is a dear friend of mine <3 #they taught me how to tan fish leather! #art #indigenous art #cree #métis #chippewa #canadian art #contemporary art #indigenous contemporary art #curation #artist run centre #artists #fish leather #leather #rawhide #traditional art #sculpture #installation #video art #my images

[zukriuchen]

Joshua Antonio Wallace - Rehearsal, 2023

#Joshua Antonio Wallace #canadian art #oil on canvas #painting

[thunderstruck9]

Lee Maelzer (Canadian, 1964), Load, 2008. Oil on canvas, 192 x 192 cm.

#lee maelzer #canadian art #trees #f

[random-brushstrokes]

Joni Mitchell - Self Portrait as Van Gogh (1994)

#joni mitchell #women painters #self portrait #canadian art #american art #1990s

[jareckiworld]

Ivan Kenneth Eyre (1935-2022) — Field Drop  [acrylic, canvas, 2000]

#Ivan Kenneth Eyre #canadian art #canadian painting #Ivan Eyre

[the-cricket-chirps]

Tom Thomson

Summer Day

Summer 1915

#tom thomson #canadian artist #canadian art #canadian painter #canadian painting #landscape #landscape aesthetic #nature #aesthetic #beauty #modern art #art history #aesthetictumblr #tumblraesthetic #tumblrpic #tumblrpictures #tumblr art #tumblrstyle #artists on tumblr

[themapletouch]

Kim Dorland, Night Swimming (2013)

#fine art #art #painting #oil painting #Kim dorland #canadian #canada #canadian art #canadian artist #sculptural painting

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Paul Peel (Canadian, 1860-1892) The Little Shepherdess, 1892 Art Gallery of Ontario

#paul peel #canadian art #canadian artist #classical art #art #fine art #oil painting #fine arts #the little shepherdess 1892 #the little shepherdess #classic art

[arthistoryanimalia]

Happy #MooseDay!

Tom Thomson (Canadian, 1877-1917)

Moose at Night, 1916

oil on wood, 20.9 x 26.9 cm

National Gallery of Canada 1545

#animals in art #animal holiday #20th century art #Tom Thomson #Group of Seven #Canadian art #1910s #painting #oil painting #National Gallery of Canada #Moose Day #moose #landscape art #wildlife art

[jstor]

Oh wow, these Inuit prints!!! Kenojuak Ashevak, Observant Owl; Kenojuak Ashevak, Throat Singers Gathering; Ningiukulu Teevee, Seasonal Migration; Sheelaky (artist) and Iyola Kingwatsiak (printer), Sea Spirit.

More than 100 of these beauties are available in St. Lawrence University's Canadian Inuit Prints, Drawings, and Carvings collection on JSTOR, which is free and open to all!

#inuit #native peoples #indigenous art #canadian art #printmaking #art #just wow #wow wow wow #research #jstor

[weepingwidar]

Peter Ferguson (Canadian, 1968) - I Thought I Told You Not to Come Around Anymore (n.d.)

#peter ferguson #art #painting #canadian art

[grundoonmgnx]

Owen Rival, Groceries, 2022 

Acrylic on canvas, 24 x 36 in

#owen rival #canadian art

[theaskew]

Ambera Wellmann (Canadian b. 1982), Nosegaze, 2020. Oil on linen, 69.85 x 59.69 cm. | 27.5 x 23.5 in.

#art #artwork #modern art #contemporary art #modern artwork #contemporary artwork #21st century modern art #21st century contemporary art #Canadian art #modern Canadian art #contemporary Canadian art #Canadian artist #Canadian painter #female Canadian artist #female artist #female painter #woman artist #woman painter #Ambera Wellmann

[thunderstruck9]

Ivan Eyre (Canadian, 1935-2022), Cloud Rows, 2004. Oil on canvas, 50 x 45 1/2 in.

#ivan kenneth eyre #ivan eyre #canadian art #clouds #forest #hills #trees

[random-brushstrokes]

Tom Thomson - Pine Trees at Sunset (1915)

#tom thomson #canadian art #landscape #1910s