Whistler’s Audain Art Museum re-opens its doors on June 10

Exhibitions featuring works by Itee Pootoogook, Louie Palu on view through the summer

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Itee Pootoogook (1951 ‐ 2014), Untitled (Man with Hoodie and Sunglasses), 2012, coloured pencil and graphite on paper, 49.5 × 64.8 cm. Collection of Christopher Bredt and Jamie Cameron. L2018.60.2

With the province gradually returning to some semblance of normal, Whistler’s Audain Art Museum is getting ready to welcome visitors anew.

It happens on June 10, when the museum opens its doors at 11 am.

Itee Pootoogook: Hymns to the Silence ᐊᐃᑏ ᐳᑐᒍᖅ: ᐱᓰᑦ ᓂᖃᑐᓕᕐᓂᕐᒧᑦ : is one of two ground-breaking exhibitions running to September 6.

Featuring more than 60 drawings from the late artist’s body of work, Itee Pootoogook: Hymns to the Silence is the first full-scale retrospective of his art. As one of the key members of the third generation of Inuit artists from Kinngait (Cape Dorset), he contributed to the transformation of the creative traditions inherited from his elders at the West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative’s Kinngait Studios. He was known as a meticulous draftsperson and an inventive landscapist who looked mainly to contemporary Northern life for his subject matter.

The exhibition was organized and circulated by the McMichael Canadian Art Collection and guest curated by Nancy Campbell.

Also on view is Louie Palu: Distant Early Warning
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ᓈᓚᕝᕕᖃᖅᕕᒃ.

Palu’s documentary project started out as a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, which evolved into an assignment for National Geographic magazine. It provides a window into the evolving militarization of the North American Arctic. The changes in the region are exacerbated by the climate crisis and increasing global traffic. The exhibition, which was organized and circulated by the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, explores growing geopolitical tensions and changing life around Inuit communities in one of the planet’s most extreme and challenging places.

The museum is open Thursday to Sunday from 11 am to 6 pm PDT.

For more information, see Audain Art Museum.

This post was sponsored by the Audain Art Museum.