{"id":603,"date":"2016-10-26T11:27:09","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T15:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/experimentalstudio.ca\/foundations\/?p=603"},"modified":"2016-11-04T16:31:17","modified_gmt":"2016-11-04T20:31:17","slug":"annie-pootoogook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/experimentalstudio.ca\/foundations\/2016\/10\/26\/annie-pootoogook\/","title":{"rendered":"Annie Pootoogook"},"content":{"rendered":"

Annie Pootoogook\u2019s<\/strong> detailed work describes everyday life in her home community of Cape Dorset, Nunavut. Her scenes of Inuit traditions include the less romantic but real integration of modern technologies such as video games and televisions as well as domestic abuse and tragedy. Her method, carefully outlined shapes in black filled with blocks of solid color, recalls traditional Inuit drawing while the subject matter reflects the unvarnished viewpoint of her generation.<\/p>\n

Other drawings are more personal and abstract, illustrating an emotional landscape of mental anguish, such as \u201cSadness and Relief for My Brother,\u201d and the austere but compelling, still life of the artist\u2019s prescription- medicine bottle, cup and a single dangling key in \u201cComposition (Annie\u2019s Tylenol).\u201d Cheerful domestic scenes such as a family opening Christmas presents (\u201cChristmas\u201d) are depicted with the same precision and calm attention to detail as the emotion-laden composition \u201cMemory of My Life: Breaking Bottles.\u201d From\u00a0boingboing<\/a><\/p>\n

Pootoogook’s body was found in the Rideau River in Ottawa in September – and the cause of her death is not known.<\/p>\n

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\u201cShe was drawing out of personal experience, but also out of shared cultural experience,\u201d said Heather Igloliorte, Concordia University Research Chair in Indigenous Art History. That had been a feature of her mother and grandmother\u2019s art too, said Ms. Igloliorte, but Inuit life had changed, and Ms. Pootoogook had been born into a new\u00a0reality.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t see any igloos in my life,\u201d the artist says in the documentary. \u201cOnly Skidoo, Honda, the house, things inside the\u00a0house.\u201d<\/p>\n

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From\u00a0http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/arts\/art-and-architecture\/the-remarkable-life-of-inuit-artist-anniepootoogook\/article32198919\/<\/p>\n

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Annie Pootoogook Memory of My Life: Breaking Bottles (2002) 20 x 26 inches Ink and pencil crayon on paper http:\/\/sfonline.barnard.edu\/ice\/gallery\/pootoogook.htm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Annie Pootoogook In The Summer Camp Tent (2002) 20 x 26 inches Pencil, ink, and pencil crayon on paper http:\/\/sfonline.barnard.edu\/ice\/gallery\/pootoogook.htm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Pootoogook, Annie Untitled (Plucking Gray Hairs) 2004 47.8 x 66.3 cm coloured pencil and black felt pen on cream wove paper http:\/\/kenojuakcentre.ca\/art-and-artists-of-cape-dorset\/<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Annie Pootoogook Eating Seal Meat, 2007 Coloured pencil on paper http:\/\/www.torontopubliclibrary.ca\/ve\/magnetic-north\/lifestyle.jsp<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Dr. Phil, Annie Pootoogook.\u00a0coloured pencil and black felt pen on cream wove paper http:\/\/kenojuakcentre.ca\/art-and-artists-of-cape-dorset\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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