Barry Ace
Barry Ace is an Anishnaabe (Odawa) visual artist, writer, and educator who lives in Ottawa. A band member of M’Chigeeng First Nation in Manitoulin Island, his mixed media, assemblage, and textile works draw from various aspects of Anishnaabeg culture to explore cultural continuity and the confluence of the historical and contemporary. Ace has exhibited his works in important international venues, including the American Indian Community House Gallery in New York, the Nordamerika Native Museum in Zurich, and the Peabody Essex Museum in Massachusetts.
Books (1)
Coalesce
$20.00
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Format:
Paperback
Text Content Territories:
Indigenous Canadian; First Nations; Anishinaabeg;
ISBN / Barcode: 9780994036131
Synopsis:
Synopsis:
Coalesce is a fusion of distinct Anishinaabeg aesthetics of the Great Lakes region with refuse from Western society’s technological and digital age in order to intentionally shift an object’s materiality and its accepted paradigm within the physical world. It is through the integration and juxtaposition of recognizable materials used in the making of Anishinaabeg material culture, such as glass beads and porcupine quills, with new-found materials, such as electronic components (capacitors and resistors), that this body of work disproves any notion of Anishinaabeg cultural stasis. Coalesce demonstrates the continuum of Anishinaabeg innovation and expression by making use of disparate materials that knowingly coalesce and segue seamlessly into contemporary Anishinaabeg artistic tradition and material culture.
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48 pages | 7.00" x 8.50"
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