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Requicken: Glenna Matoush

Carleton University Art Gallery: 15 May – 27 August 2006

Glenna Matoush My Great Grandfather, Chief Yellow Head, Who’s Buried Under McDonalds on Yonge Street in Toronto (1995)

Born on the Rama Reserve in Ontario, the Ojibway artist Glenna Matoush studied art at the Elliot Lake School of Fine Arts, the University of Alberta and the Guilde Graphique in Montreal in the late 1970s and 1980s. Matoush raised her family in Mistissini, Quebec, and has since become a resident of Montreal, where she has long been active in both the arts and Aboriginal communities.
Trained as a printmaker but now working primarily as a painter, Matoush’s expressionistic style moves fluidly between the figurative and the abstract. Her work is informed directly by nature; she often collages birch bark, leaves, earth, and stones into her paintings. Matoush addresses contemporary social and political Aboriginal issues in her work, including the environmental destruction she has witnessed in Cree territory in Northern Quebec, and the despair caused by AIDS and the reclamation of culture. ...

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