Check out this fascinating essay on CBC Arts about Annie Pootoogook’s exhibit at Toronto’s Power Plant Gallery. As the piece’s author, David Balzer, writes, “Pootoogooks new exhibit at Torontos Power Plant is a debut in more ways than one. Not only is it her first at a Canadian public gallery, but its also the first time the Power Plant, Canadas pre-eminent venue for contemporary art, has dedicated a major show to an Inuit artist.”
His essay explores three generations of Inuit women artists, the north/south divide many Canadians don’t even think about, and some of the gendered issues Inuit women face, which Pootoogook deals with in hter work. The piece is accompanied by some of Pootoogook’s beautiful artwork.
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There's also an article on Pootoogook's work in today's (July 5th) Globe and Mail. It seems an honest assessment of her work, avoiding ingenuous praise and instead focusing on the difficult life from which these works came, and which they depict in pen and ink. Worth reading about, and even more worth checking out at the Power Plant, for those of you that can.
Posted by Anna
July 5, 2006, 1:45 PM
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