CLIENT OPENING: Tonight at Ottawa’s @OttawaArtG MichaelBelmore & GroupofSeven A. J. Casson exhibit “Confluence and Tributaries”

This beautiful exhibition partners Anishinaabe artist Michael Belmore’s (www.michaelbelmore.com) copper work (Settlement, Landing 1 & 2, Gather, and Watershed No. 1) with the paintings of A.J. Casson, one of the Group of Seven.

MICHAEL BELMORE and A.J. CASSON
Nkweshkdaadiimgak Miinwaa Bakeziibiisan
Confluences and Tributaries
October 11, 2018 – March 10, 2019
Opening Reception: October 17, 2018

From the Ottawa Art Gallery:

This exhibition will coalesce the work of two artists from different cultural and generational backgrounds, to bring together the story of the Ontario landscape and the histories which go beyond its beauty. Michael Belmore will assert an Indigenous, Anishinaabe world view, re-affirming Native ways of knowing into the stories we tell and images we show of the mountains, lakes and rivers which make up the land now geographically defined as Canada. The places depicted in A.J. Casson’s oeuvre are places which, historically, bore spiritual and cultural importance to the various Anishinaabe peoples of the region. Many of these sites are marked with the experiences, legends and knowledge of generations of Anishinaabeg through the pictographs (rock art) which still inhabit these landscapes.

CURATOR
Wahsontiio Cross

More info on the OAG website.

IMAGES: (top image) detail of “Settlement” by Michael Belmore courtesy Ottawa Art Gallery (bottom image) “Settlement” installed with A.J. Casson paintings by Leah Snyder