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Works of renowned Indigenous carver Beau Dick to be shown at prestigious New York art fair
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The late, great Beau Dick to be featured at Independent Art Fair in New York
The Georgia Straight April 30, 2024straight.com/arts/late-great-beau-dick-to-be-featured-at-independent-art-fair-in-new-yorkAs part of a special 15th anniversary edition of the invitation-only Independent Art Fair in New York, East Vancouver's own Fazakas Gallery will be exhibiting the work of Chief Beau Dick, a celebrated Kwakwaka'wakw artist and activist who died in 2017.
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Five NYC Shows to Round Out Your April
Hyperallergic April 16, 2024hyperallergic.com/902939/five-nyc-shows-to-round-out-april-2024/Andrew Kreps Gallery (andrewkreps.com)
22 Cortlandt Alley, Tribeca, Manhattan
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Stir Cheat Sheet: 5 shows to catch at the Capture Photography Festival
Stir March 27, 2024createastir.ca/articles/five-shows-capture-photography-festival-2024In a new series by Marcy Friesen, who resides in rural Saskatchewan, audio recordings and poems combine with her witty compositions in a kind of incantation that invites the observer into a warm realm of subconscious symbology. Using the practical tools of her everyday trade-beads and fur-Friesen describes her art as "useless", knowing full well that it only strengthens the beauty and the appeal.
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Audie Murray: To Make Smoke
Solo Exhibition Feb 22 - Sept 8, 2024mackenzie.art/exhibition/audie-murray-to-make-smoke/The collision of red phosphorus on the tip of the matchstick against the powdered glass surface of the matchbox unfolds as an intense and rapid encounter, setting off a cascading combustion reaction. In this fiery spectacle, the red substance transforms into a brilliant white, releasing its stored energy in the form of scorching heat. What remains in the aftermath is a veil of smoke, a spectral residue that bears witness, validates, and narrates the event that just took place.
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Cree-Métis artist Jason Baerg looks to 'radical love' in his new solo show Rooted Synergy
The Vancouver Sun January 3, 2024vancouversun.com/entertainment/local-arts/cree-metis-artist-jason-baerg-looks-to-radical-love-in-his-new-solo-show-rooted-synergy/wcm/dc53e97f-7c8a-4afa-b6b8-99044093c3ce/amp/In the new solo show Rooted Synergy Exploring Radical Indigenous Love, on now at Vancouver's Fazakas Gallery until Jan. 20, Cree-Métis visual artist Jason Baerg continues to explore 'material experimentation on abstraction, the interplay of forms, and Indigenous futuristic symbols.'
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Jason Baerg’s “Rooted Synergy” at Fazakas Gallery creates a space for collective healing
The Georgia Straight December 5, 2023straight.com/arts/jason-baergs-rooted-synergy-at-fazakas-gallery-creates-a-space-for-collective-healingAt a time when so much of the world feels divisive, Métis artist and activist Jason Baerg is creating a safe space for healing through his work.
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Indian Theater: Native Performance, Art, and Self-Determination since 1969
e-flux 23 November 2023e-flux.com/criticism/576800/indian-theater-native-performance-art-and-self-determination-since-1969"This 'right to opacity,' as Édouard Glissant terms it, takes a significant twist in 'Indian Theater,' albeit perhaps unfortunately tucked away in the didactics. Labels for both Beau Dick’s (Kwakwaka’wakw, Musgamakw Dzawada’enuxw First Nation) mask Yagis (ca. 2005) and a display case of vinyl recordings of Native songs and music discuss work not meant for general consumption [...]"
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Star Crop Eared Wolf, Marcy Friesen, and more
Foyer 26 September 2023readfoyer.com/article/star-crop-eared-wolf-marcy-friesen-and-more"The title of the exhibition being the Cree word for “I, me, mine,” Friesen reflects on her upbringing and family history, using her beadwork – and humour- to transform everyday objects and blur the barriers between art and artist. Filled with vibrant colours and cheeky references, NINA furthers Friesen’s practice of creating works highlighting artisanal craftsmanship beyond traditional spectrums of beauty and utility."
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‘An Indigenous Present’ Is a Paradigm-Shifting Illumination of Native North American Art Today
Colossal 12 September 2023thisiscolossal.com/2023/09/an-indigenous-present/"The tome highlights the remarkable diversity of media and cultural influences across the continent, from fashion artist Jamie Okuma’s intricately beaded designer boots to Dana Claxton’s elaborate Headdress portrait series to Northwest Coast artist and Chief Beau Dick’s expressive masks."
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Focus Highlights Indigenous Artists at the 2023 Armory Show
FAAZINE 9 September 2023firstamericanartmagazine.com/focus-armory-show-2023/"Hopkins selected solo and two-person exhibits to explore hidden histories and the malleability of history. “The artists in the Focus section use materials to manifest histories—whether sedimented or surfaced, place-based or familial, learned or reclaimed—and to conjure specific futures,” Hopkins wrote in her curatorial statement."
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I Hate to Admit it, But I Loved the Armory Show
Hyperallergic 8 September 2023hyperallergic.com/843696/i-hate-to-admit-it-but-i-loved-the-armory-show/"Ontario-based Inuk artist Couzyn Van Heuvelen exhibited some of his foil balloon pieces, inspired by the Inuit seal-skin floats used to hunt marine animals. These works are typically filled with helium, but the fair prohibited it, worried that the artworks would drift up into the convention center’s impossibly high ceilings, thousands of dollars lost forever. 'They told us: ‘Pop them or get out,' said Fazakas Gallery owner LaTiesha Fazakas. 'So we blew them up ourselves using straws.'"
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Groundbreaking survey examines performance and objecthood in Native North American Contemporary Art
Artdaily 29 June 2023artdaily.com/news/158782/Groundbreaking-survey-examines-performance-and-objecthood-in-Native-North-American-Contemporary-Art"The Center for Curatorial Studies’ Hessel Museum of Art presents the first major exhibition to center performance as an origin point for the development of contemporary art by Native American, First Nations, Métis, Inuit, and Alaska Native artists. Curated by leading scholar and curator Candice Hopkins (Carcross/Tagish First Nation), Indian Theater: Native Performance, Art, and Self-Determination since 1969 traces the history of experimentation that emerged in the late 1960s and continues to inform the practice of Native artists today."
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Arctic Amazon: Indigenous art from two sensitive regions in the climate crisis
Gallerieswest 19 June 2023gallerieswest.ca/magazine/stories/arctic-amazon/"Van Heuvelen is an Inuit artist who was born in Iqaluit and now lives in southern Ontario, and this powerful sculpture combines a keen sense of contemporary art with a respectful homage to the traditions of Inuit carving. Displayed on a series of sharp-edged white forms that evoke shards of ice, the sled seems trapped in a melting ice field, graphically reflecting the effects of climate change on traditional hunting grounds."
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