Artist Meet and Greet Jamasie Pitseolak & Nelson Tagoona

Floe Edge: Contemporary Art And Collaborations From Nunavut
Artist Meet and Greet Jamasie Pitseolak & Nelson Tagoona
Thursday Sept 28th from 7-9pm at Urban Shaman Gallery

Please join us as we greet and celebrate two artists that are a part of the current show Floe Edge in Urban’s space, Jamasie Pitseolak and Nelson Tagoona. Nosh on Artic Char and see contemporary Nunavut artwork. We are happy to have this rare opportunity to have these artists in from way Northern Canada and we hope you may join us in welcoming them to our Prairie city.

image above: Jamasie Pitseolek “Proposal” Soapstone and Glass, 2007 courtesy of AxeNeo7.

 
Jamasie Pitseolak
At 42, Jamasie Pitseolak is at the forefront of a generation of Inuit artists who are bringing new ideas and sensibilities to the evolving tradition of northern art. Born in 1968 in Cape Dorset on southern Baffin Island, Pitseolak belongs to the first generation of Inuit who grew up in permanent year-round settlements. The son of artists Mark and Ookpik Pitseolak, he began carving when he was 8 or 9, selling his first works to the Hudson’s Bay Company. One of his earliest influences was his grandfather, Peter Pitseolak, a well-known carver and photographer from the Dorset area. Feeling a lack of connection with more traditional themes and unsatisfied with the direction of his work, he began incorporating unconventional modern imagery into his expression in the late 1990s.

Like many Inuit sculptors, Pitseolak works in a range of organic and non-organic indigenous materials, including stone, antler and ivory. The similarity ends there. Whereas most Inuit artists produce sculptures from single blocks of stone, Pitseolak works like a collagist, painstakingly assembling his images from individually carved pieces. Equally inventive is his distinctive modern subject matter. Instead of traditional images of hunters and wildlife, Pitseolak tends to represent distinctly modern objects—motorcycles, machinery with moveable parts, guitars and tables (complete with vases). The majority of Pitseolak’s works are marked by a playful charm, a quality reflected also in his sculptures’ titles, many of which are based on puns. That said, some works show a more serious approach, including representations of guns and modern weaponry which it is possible to read as the artist’s engagement with local and global violence. Pitseolak’s work is in many private and public collections, including the Winnipeg Art Gallery and the Canadian Museum of Civilization.

Nelson Tagoona
Nelson Tagoona, a one-of-a-kind musician best known for his inspirational messages and his unique blend of vocal percussion and traditional Inuit throat singing called “throat boxing”. This powerful performance has impacted the youth and garnered Tagoona the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal.

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/NelsonTagoona/
Youtube https://youtu.be/evcfGADRNPM

REMEMBER!
Urban does Nuit Blanche Winnipeg
Performance as part of the show “Floe Edge: Contemporary Art And Collaborations From Nunavut”
Musician:  Nelson Tagoona
When: Saturday, September 30 at 10pm till 11pm
Where: Deer + Almond (85 Princess St.  At the corner of McDermot Ave.)

Nuit Blanche Winnipeg event:
http://nuitblanchewinnipeg.ca/event/urban-does-nuit-blanche-winnipeg-w-nelson-tagoona/

Floe Edge continues in the gallery till October 14. For more info on the show please visit http://urbanshaman.org/site/exhibitions.

Urban Shaman would like to thank Calm Air for sponsoring flights to these artists to come to Winnipeg.

Urban does Nuit Blanche Winnipeg : Musician Nelson Tagoona

Urban does Nuit Blanche Winnipeg
Performance as part of the show “Floe Edge: Contemporary Art And Collaborations From Nunavut”
Musician:  Nelson Tagoona
When: Saturday, September 30 at 10pm till 11pm
Where: Deer + Almond (85 Princess St.  At the corner of McDermot Ave.)

As an extension of the current show “Floe Edge: Contemporary Art and Collaborations From Nunavut”, Urban Shaman Gallery is excited to present singer Nelson Tagoona, (Baker Lake, Nunavut) during the celebrations of Nuit Blanche on Saturday, Sept 30 at 10pm to 11pm. Don’t miss out seeing Tagoona on the rooftop of the restaurant Deer + Almond (85 Princess St, at corner of McDermot Ave. Winnipeg, MB across the street from Urban Shaman).

Nelson Tagoona, a one-of-a-kind musician best known for his inspirational messages and his unique blend of vocal percussion and traditional Inuit throat singing called “throat boxing”. This powerful performance has impacted the youth and garnered Tagoona the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal.

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/NelsonTagoona/
Youtube https://youtu.be/evcfGADRNPM

Floe Edge and Tagoona’s Nuit Blanche performance are presented by Urban Shaman Contemporary Aboriginal Art and Nunavut Arts & Crafts Association. A special thank you to our friends at Deer + Almond.

“Floe Edge: Contemporary Art And Collaborations From Nunavut” will not be opened during Nuit Blanche, but runs till October 14. Check our website for details about this show http://urbanshaman.org/site/exhibitions

Off-Site Programming: Rebecca Belmore “At Pelican Falls”

EXHIBITION | 08 September – 21 October 2017
WHERE | PLATFORM Centre, Suite 121-100 Arthur St.
OPENING RECEPTION | Friday 08 September, 7:00 PM
ARTIST TALK | Saturday 09 September, 2:00 PM

PLATFORM centre for photographic + digital arts in partnership with WNDX and Urban Shaman Gallery are pleased to announce “At Pelican Falls”, a solo exhibition of brand new work from Rebecca Belmore (BC). The show runs from 04 September – 21 October 2017 with an opening reception scheduled for Friday 08 September at 7:00 PM. Belmore will give an artist talk at 2:00 PM on Saturday 09 September. Both events are free and open to the public. At Pelican Falls features two pieces of writing – a creative response from Florene Belmore (BC) and a critical examination of the work by Jessica Jacobson-Konefall (MB).

EXHIBITION | 08 September – 21 October 2017
WHERE | PLATFORM Centre, Suite 121-100 Arthur St.
OPENING RECEPTION | Friday 08 September, 7:00 PM
ARTIST TALK | Saturday 09 September, 2:00 PM

In early July, 2017 Scott Benesiinaabandan, Florene Belmore and Rebecca Belmore spent a week together in Sioux Lookout, Ontario. A photo from the Ontario Archives taken by John Macfie in 1955 drew the artists to the site. In the photograph, taken before the artists were born, seven boys from Pelican Falls residential school in denim coveralls watch a man fishing on the lake. They are facing away from the camera. “At Pelican Falls” focuses on experiential connection and archival intimacy within specific places.

All three artists’ extended families are connected to this place and history, and thus the image speaks to their own stories. Starting with the picture, they visited the old Pelican Falls residential school grounds, and fished at the falls. While they couldn’t locate the exact rock in the archival photograph, they quietly walked the grounds where the old school once stood. The resulting works articulate the visit and its significance to each artist in dialogue with one another, the photograph and the site.

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