John Hupfield's Woodlands Indian Art & West Coast Indian Art

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Maria Hupfield, “John Hupfield’s Woodlands Indian Art & West Coast Indian Art," nd

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Opening: March 16 @ 7pm

Special Events:

Opening night performance with Maria Hupfield & Charlene Vickers

March 16, 7:30pm

Additional performance with Charlene Vickers TBA

John Hupfield's Woodlands Indian Art & West Coast Indian Art will be Maria Hupfield's first solo exhibition in Vancouver, presented by the Western Front. Maria Hupfield will use two projects completed by her father, John Hupfield, as source material to create a new body of work.  In the early 1970s John Hupfield—a recent graduate from the first class of students in the media arts program at Sheridan College—made two projects about First Nations artists in Canada using sound recordings and 35mm slides. For this exhibition, Maria and her father worked together to recreate these projects from his archive of slides and tape recordings. These slide shows will be presented in the gallery alongside a series of felt sculptures. Through the works in this exhibition, Hupfield explores these archives of cultural knowledge and the management of that knowledge by an outsider (her non-native, Canadian father) to consider possible models for settler and immigrant accomplices in conversation with indigenous peoples as well as indigenous to indigenous relations. Hupfield will also invite artist Charlene Vickers to collaborate on a new performance.

Artist Biographies:

Maria Hupfield (born in Parry Sound, Georgian Bay, Ontario, Canada, 1975) is a member of Wasauksing First Nation, Ontario, and is currently based in Brooklyn, New York. Solo exhibitions include MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina (2015); Gallery Hugues Charbonneau, Montréal (2015); Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, Brandon (2011). Group exhibitions and performances include Trestle Projects Brooklyn (2016); SITE Santa Fe Biennial (2016); Winsor Gallery, Vancouver (2016); A Space Gallery, Toronto (2015); Campo dei Gesuiti, Venice (2015); Aboriginal Art Centre, Ottawa (2015); The Bronx Museum, New York (2015); Vox Populi, Philadelphia (2015); Musée d'art contemporain des Laurentides, Saint Jérôme (2015); North Native Museum (NONAM), Zurich (2014); SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art, Montréal (2013); The Power Plant (2013); Vancouver Art Gallery (2012). Hupfield is founder of 7th Generation Image Makers, Native Child and Family Services of Toronto; Co-owner Native Art Department International; and Assistant Professor in Visual Art and Material Practice appointed tot he Faculty of Culture and Community, Emily Carr University of Arts and Design (2007-11). 

Charlene Vickers is an Anishnabe artist based in Vancouver. Born in Kenora, Ontario and raised in Toronto, she explores her Ojibway ancestry through painting, sculpture, performance, and video examining memory, healing and embodied connections to ancestral lands. Recent solo exhibitions include Asemaa/Tobacco, Artspeak and Ominjimendaan/to remember, grunt gallery in Vancouver. Her work has been exhibited across Canada and the United States and toured nationally in the group shows The Fifth World at the Mendel Art Gallery in Saskatoon, (curated by Wanda Nanibush) and Custom Made at Kamloops Art Gallery (curated by Tania Willard); and can be seen in the permanent collections at the Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia. Charlene is an MFA grad at Simon Fraser University and is on the Board of Directors at grunt gallery. In spring 2016, Vickers was selected as the inaugural artist in residence at Griffin Art Projects in North Vancouver creating a series of expansive abstract paintings, plus a new performance work with Chad MacQuarrie called Portals and Improvisations.