Cape Dorset
Inuit Prints

2017 Spring Release


Swimming Bear
  

Gallery Gevik is pleased to announce the release of two screen print editions, Tattooed Whale and Swimming Bear by Tim Pitsiulak. These two iconic prints were created by Tim in collaboration with master printmakers at Open Studio in Toronto in the spring of 2016 as part of a two week Inuit Artist Creative Residency Program.

Click here to view the 2017 Spring Release and the 2016 Cape Dorset Print Collection


Annual Cape Dorset Print Collections


1960-1969
1970-1979
1980-1989
1990-1999		 2000
2001
2002
2003		 2004
2005
2006
2007		 2008
2009
2010
2011		 2012
2013
2014
2015		 2016

Cape Dorset

Cape Dorset, Nunavut, Canada
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Cape Dorset is an Inuit hamlet located on Dorset Island near Foxe Peninsula at the southern tip of Baffin Island in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada. The Inuktitut name of the village means "high mountains".

Since the 1950s, Cape Dorset, which calls itself the "Capital of Inuit Art" has been a centre for drawing, printmaking, and carving. Even today, printmaking and carving are the community's main economic activities. Each year, Kinngait Studios issues an annual print collection. Cape Dorset has been hailed as the most artistic community in Canada, with some 22% of the labour force employed in the arts.

Between the years of 1959 and 1974, Cape Dorset artists produced more than 48,000 prints. Well-known artists of Cape Dorset include Pudlo Pudlat and Kenojuak Ashevak. Ashevak's drawings of owls have appeared on Canadian stamps as well as a Canadian quarter. Inuit photographer and author Peter Pitseolak spent several years of his life living in Cape Dorset.


Selected Artists


Kenojuak Ashevak
Kenojuak Ashevak		 Pitseolak Ashoona
Pitseolak Ashoona		 Shuvinai Ashoona
Shuvinai Ashoona
Meelia Kelly
Mialia Jaw		 Kavavaow Mannomee
Kavavaow Mannomee		 Ohotaq Mikkigak
Ohotaq Mikkigak
Tim Pitsiulak
Tim Pitsiulak		 Kananginak Pootoogook
Kananginak Pootoogook		 Napachie Pootoogook
Napachie Pootoogook
Pudlo Pudlat
Pudlo Pudlat		 Lucy Qinnuayuak
Lucy Qinnuayuak		 Kakulu Saggiatok
Kakulu Saggiatok
Pitaloosie Saila
Pitaloosie Saila		 Ningeokuluk Teevee
Ningeokuluk Teevee		 Papiara Tukiki
Papiara Tukiki


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Daphne OdjigDaphne Odjig, Canadian Indigenous Artist and Icon Dies at 97. Click here for more details.

Odjig is frequently referred to as the "Grandmother of Indigenous Art." She has been the recipient of many awards, honours and recognitions for her works, to name a few: The Order of Canada, the Governor General's Award, and eight Honorary Doctorates. Her works have been shown in the National Gallery of Canada, The McMichael Canadian Art Collection, the Canadian Museum of Civilization and the Art Gallery of Ontario.


She established the first native-run fine art print house in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1971. Known as 'Odjig Indian Prints,' this print house was so successful that it evolved into an Indigenous gallery space in 1974, called the New Warehouse Gallery, run by Odjig and her husband, Chester Beavon. She was also a founding member of the Indian Group of Seven. This artistic group's purpose was to promote Contemporary Indigenous art and artists.

Alex JanvierAlex Janvier's major retrospective, "Alex Janvier: Modern Indigenous Master" was recently on display at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa. Alex Janvier is one of Canada's most acclaimed contemporary Indigenous artists. His career of sixty-five years has yielded thousands of paintings, and more than twenty-five murals and public commissions.

This exhibition has now travelled to the MacKenzie Art Gallery in Regina, Saskatchewan until September 10th. The retrospective will end off at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in Toronto. No official dates have been announced as of yet. (Photo credit: Kim Griffiths)

Rita LetendreGallery Gevik congratulates renowned Canadian and International abstract painter, Rita Letendre, on her first major museum retrospective exhibition outside of Québec. Rita Letendre: Fire and Light is now open until September 17, 2017 at the Art Gallery of Ontario.

This exhibition, which covers Letendre's career from the 1960's to 2000's, is co-curated by Wanda Nanibush and Georgiana Uhlyarik. The retrospective features nearly forty large-scale paintings drawn from major national public and private collections.

Letendre was widely exhibited with the artistic groups, Les Automatistes and Les Plasticiens. She has received the Governor General's Award in Visual Arts, the Prix Paul-Émile Borduas, and the Orders of Canada, Ontario and Québec. Click here for more details.