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DAVID RUBEN PIQTOUKUN (1950 - ) |
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Artist David Ruben Piqtoukun resided in the Inuit community of Paulatuk before settling outside of Toronto where he lives and works today. His brother is noted artist Abraham Apakark Anghik. Piqtoukun has worked as a sculptor since the early 1970s. Over the past thirty-five years his work has been featured in half a dozen solo shows and countless international group exhibitions. Piqtoukun works in stone and metal, utilizing insets of bone, ivory
or stone in contrasting colour. His multi-media sculptures are complex
and often created in many parts. He is known for his fine finish and
meticulous attention to detail, as well as his tendency to stretch the
very limits of the carving material as he creates remarkably thin and
intercarved forms. Drawing on Inuit, Alaskan and first Nations heritage,
his works are filled with masks and shamanic transformation spirits,
such as fish and bear spirit helpers.
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