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Kablusiak, "Disposable Razor," 2018

soapstone & tung oil, 4.5" x 2.75" x 1.75"

Welcome Kablusiak - We hope you will join us on Friday, November 23rd, 5-8pm for an introduction and celebratory toast in welcoming Kablusiak to the gallery.

JHG is proud to announce the representation of multidisciplinary artist & emerging curator, Kablusiak. Kablusiak, also known as Jade Nasogaluak Carpenter, is an emerging Inuvialuk artist born in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories & currently based in Calgary, Alberta. They hold a BFA in Drawing from the Alberta College of Art and Design & recently completed the Indigenous Curatorial Research Practicum at Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity. Kablusiak uses art & humour as a coping mechanism to address cultural displacement. The lighthearted nature of their practice extends gestures of empathy & solidarity; these interests invite a reconsideration of the perceptions of contemporary Indigeneity.

Awards include the Alberta Foundation for the Arts Young Artist Prize (2017), Primary Colours Emerging Artist Award (2018) & most notably the Alberta College of Art & Design’s TD Insurance Meloche Monnex Career Award for Alumni (2018). Currently their work is part of Among All These Tundras, a group exhibition featuring circumpolar Indigenous artists at the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery in Montreal, & later touring to the Esker Foundation, Calgary (2019) & Onsite Gallery, Toronto (2019). They have recently shown work at Art Mûr as part of the Biennale d’art contemporain autochtone (2018) & at the Athens School of Fine Arts as part of the Platforms Project (2018). Kablusiak, along with three other Inuit curators, will be creating the inaugural exhibition of the new Inuit Art Centre in 2020.

We will have a selection of Kablusiak’s latest soapstones on view over the month of December.