Jane Ash Poitras
Rielisms
Catherine Mattes & Sherry Farrell Racette
Nine artists - of Aboriginal, Metis and European ancestry - work to define the reality of Louis Riel, the 19th century Metis political organizer who was hung as a traitor. Mattes demonstrates that the identity of Riel varies widely in the public imagination and that he remains a conflicted symbol of current political ideologies. Artists include John Boyle, Rosalie Favell and Jane Ash Poitras.
Winnipeg Art Gallery (2001) 64 pp 23 ill. 10.5x8 in softcover 0889152012 $20.00
Osopikahikiwak: Jane Ash Poitras & Rick Rivet
Catherine Bédard, Gerald McMaster, Barry Ace, Elisabeth Védrenne
"Osopikahikiwak" means "painters" in Cree. Poitras and Rivet are Native Canadians whose practice and concept of painting is marked by a wish to perpetuate the symbols and images whose pictorial elaboration illustrates a tragic destiny. Poitras' paintings - layered with photographs, text and hieroglyphics - are strong, bright and immediate, visually and politically charged, and full of memory. Rivet's paintings are half-toned, less obvious and more mysterious. Drawn from shamanic symbolism, his figurative images have been submerged into a quiet, melodious whole blending abstract-expressionism, primitivism and graffiti.
"Osopikahakawak" signifie "peintres" dans le langage Cree. Poitras et Rivet sont des Amérindiens canadiens pour lesquels la pratique et la conception de la peinture sont profondément marquées par le souhait de perpétuer des symboles et des images dont l'élaboration du tableau monte un destin tragique. Poitras fait une peinture puissante, immédiate, très imagée et engagée, et haute en couleurs. L'oeuvre de Rivet est plus composée et mystérieuse. Tirés d'une tradition chamanique, ses images figuratives se métamorphose en formes minimales submergées dans une ensemble médiataive composant l'expressionisme abstrait, le primitivisme et le graffiti.
Canadian Cultural Centre / Centre culturel canadien, Paris France (1999) 115 p., 32 col. ill., 8x8 in / 21x21 cm, 1896940110 $32.00
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