Well, primary colours (and colours that seem like primary colours), interesting shapes. I may just get motivated to do something.
Colour Zone, 2000
Acrylic on canvas
106 in x 78 in (H x W)
269.25 cm x 198.12 cm (H x W)
Price on request, for more information please contact artsales@vancouverbiennale.com
Sale proceeds will establish two Vancouver Biennale residencies for Indigenous artists.
Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun is one of the most prominent outspoken contemporary First Nations artists working today and is projected to be one of the most relevant of our time. Colour Zone is one of Yuxweluptun's most significant ovoid works. In this canvas, ovoid forms serve as the central element. Ovoids are the foundational building blocks of classic Northwest Coast Indigenous design and are unique in Yuxweluptun's work as they are used as non-pictorial compositions to convey critical issues of the human plight such as self-determination, self-government, social conditions and Indigenous philosophy. Strategically placing different colours of ovoids around a background in a chaotic matter, Yuxweluptun talks about the frustration, struggles, and confusion of one's identity that occurred in the minds of the Indigenous peoples throughout the colonization of what is colloquially referred to as Canada.
