Burning Cold
18 June – 30 August 2009
The Ottawa Art Gallery

For a while now VoCA has been interested in the new Inuit art – in fact, we interviewed Inuit art dealer Pat Feheley about it HERE. Feheley speaks eloquently and knowledgeably on the “sea change” that occurred once Cape Dorset artists discovered that they could depict the world around them.

Shuvinai Ashoona, Scary Dream, 2006. Image: ottawaartgallery.com

Previously, they had been limited to what the ‘market’ dictated – cliched images of bears, seals, old-fashioned hunting scenes etc.

We recommended Noise Ghost, curator Nancy Campbell’s exhibition at the Justina M Barnicke Gallery at the University of Toronto that pairs Ashoona with super hot multi-media artist Shary Boyle in a two-woman show, and now we recommend Burning Cold, a show curated by Scott Marsden, that pairs Ashoona’s work with other Canadians including BGL, Tania Kitchell and Emily Vey Duke + Cooper Battersby.

According to the press release, “Burning Cold links together artists from Northern and Southern Canada…encouraging cultural exchange, promoting cultural diversity, and opening a dialogue between visual artists.”

We recommend the talk with artist Annie Pootoogook (in English)
Friday 19 June at 4:00 pm

For more info, please click HERE

TIP: You can purchase Ashoona’s lovely, naive prints, many in editions of 50, for $300 – $700 Canadian dollars, HERE.