M(E T)AT R I X visual art log selections by the artist     2008 ART 2008 Canadian Contemporary ABORIGINAL ART   Joane Cardinal-Schubert currently exhibiting "Letters to Emily - Random Exotica" digital collage works, printed on BFK Rives, 2004 - 2005   scroll down

 

Cardinal -Schubert has become one of this country's most honoured and respected artists producing a dynamic body of work unique in its subject matter,its approach and its execution - a potent visual multi-media exploration particularly significant to the History of Art in Canada . A powerful integration of symbolic icons personal "history" in her exploration of multi-media. . The artist has demonstrated an important nfluence in the development of the deeper understanding of Canadian Contemporary Aboriginal Art by the public at large.       to access a previous website - click on icon  pre-2000 work   Cardinal-Schubert is no longer associated with Bearclaw Gallery, Edmonton               Joane Cardinal-Schubert, LL.D (Hon), RCA, BFA A multi-media artist whose work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in over 30 solo exhibitions and many group exhibitions, her work is represented in many global art collections. Cardinal-Schubert has worked professionally as an art curator, lecturer, published writer and as a director of video and Aboriginal Theatre. Selected Honours & Awards 1985, inducted into the Royal Canadian Academy of Art 1993, the Commemorative Medal of Canada for her contribution to the Arts 1996 Retrospective exhibition; Joane Cardinal-Schubert, national tour 2000, the Alberta College of Arl & Design Alumni Award presented by the former Lieutenant Governor of Alberta, Lois Hole. 2002, the Queen's Golden Jubilee Medal 2003 Honorary Doctor of Laws cum laudis , The University of Calgary 2005 Centennial Presentation of the artists work to the National Gallery of Canada by the Province of Alberta 2006 ACAD Board of Governors' Alumni Award of Excellence; in recognition of Exceptional Achievement in Art and Design 2006 presentation of the artists work to the Smithsonian, Washington by the Province of Alberta 2007 Dr. Joane Cardinal-Schubert received the National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation Award, Arts 2007 Honouring, Red Crow College, Kainai    represented by Masters Gallery , Calgary Joane Cardinal-Schubert's IMAGE for more info contact Willock and Sax Gallery, Banff Joane Cardinal-Schubert's IMAGE for more info contact Spirit Wrestler Gallery, Vancouver Joane Cardinal-Schubert IMAGES for more info contact_us HollanderYork Gallery, Toronto WEB PAGE       About this online exhibition  Letters to Emily - Random Exotica In 1984 , I visited Victoria. Naturally I looked for the work of Emily Carr. I had identified her as one of my heroes in a series of works entitled Great Canadian Dream - Heroes , exhibited at the University of Calgary Art Gallery and the Muttart Gallery, Calgary in 1977 - 78. I found her work there in a building that had belonged to her father, situated on Wharf Street. Her work hung in a helter-skelter mode , the frames almost touching in the badly light rooms. Dampness and mold prevaded the air. A film could only be shown if there were two attendants on the job. There was only one. It was the year I received an RCA diploma. Emily received one post-mort. I felt a strange empathy with her artistic journey and began to write her letters as if she was just away. These were written in flip diary mode and included on collograph warshirts and other works that represented an artists war on the arts establishment paradigm and the prevailing elite approach to art. Gentle fingerpointing hidden in beauty/truth. In 2004 I created these particular letters to Emily ( wall installation) for an exhibition at the Little Gallery, University of Calgary Fine Arts You can see "Portrait as an Indian Warshirt, 1991 " exhibited along with Emily Carr at the Glenbow Museum until the end of Jan. 2008   I think that particular warshirt was completed in the election year when bingo daubers were given out to prospective voters    Emily Carr is enjoying a return to interest. it can't happen too soon.   Cardinal-Schubert work on exhibit in an Glenbow exhibition soon opening, entitled (Honouring Tradition) Glenbow link Watch for the next online exhibition of work (this site updated January 2, 2008)     Links of Interest  National Aboriginal Achievement Awards Joane Cardinal-Schubert - LEGACY Joane Cardinal-Schubert U of C article Joane Cardinal-SchubertWarshirt, Transitions exhibition

The Lesson , a interactive performance installation created in 1989

Joane Cardinal-Schubert, , found objects, apples, hooks, books, ropes, whistles, mixed media , 14 x 18 ft. ,Articule Gallery, Montreal , PQ.

The residential period needed to be exposed in such a manner as to indicate the genocide construct..

I can assure you it is not comfortable to make artwork which is about life; which represents political activism to others.

This performance work was exhibited in various venues across Canada, Art Galleries, Schools, Friendship Centres, Community Centres,

and Universities. It was installed in the US and Europe. It is partially reconstructed in the film 'Hands of History' directed by Loretta Todd.

photo credit: John Dean photography, Calgary

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