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Material Culture: The Art of
Mayureak Ashoona |
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The first solo exhibition of work by Mayureak Ashoona of Cape Dorset, featuring a comprehensive selection of her sculpture, drawings, prints and oil stick paintings. Since the death of her husband, artist Qaqaq Ashoona, in 1996, Mayureak
has been able to devote greater time and energy to her art, and her
unique style has strengthened through this greater sense of freedom
and subsequent confidence. She continues to create works on paper, but
her greatest expansion in creativity has been in dynamic works sculpted
in stone. These are advanced not merely in subject matter and scale
but also in her remarkable handling of the complex technical requirements
of the medium. In the midst of this latest period of freedom and creativity
she has also explored painting. Mayureak's oil stick compositions on
paper and on board are wonderfully free in gesture have finally allowed
her, for the first time in her career, unlimited use of colour.
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