Untitled

Artist/Creator: Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun Lets’lo:tseltun (Artist)
Date: 1997
ID #: BG1932

Physical Description

Medium: acrylic
Support: canvas
Dimensions: 178.5 cm 122.5 cm 4 cm (Object)
Object Description: Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun’s work strikes at colonialism, corporations and government, and in so doing, the artist becomes a sort of history painter for his generation. In this untitled work from 1997, Yuxweluptun depicts a de-forested landscape draped with melting Northwest Coast formline patterns, with several abstracted human figures looking on. The painting refers to Surrealism, though the artist articulates his style as visionist Ovoidism - or non-referential abstraction. In his 1995 artist statement for his exhibition at the opening of the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Yuxweluptun states, “Land claims have always concerned me: fishing rights, hunting rights, water rights, inherent rights. My home, my native land. Land is power, power is land. This is what I try to paint.”

History

Collection: Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery Permanent Collection
Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery Permanent Collection
Credit Line: Gift of the artist, 1998
Related Exhibitions: –

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