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THIS WEEK AT KOLAJ MAGAZINE

Life Is Short, Life Is Theatre

COLLAGE BOOKS La VIDA Es Corta by Fabian Giles

FROM KOLAJ 27 Life Is a Theatre: Mieke Messer Artist Porfolio

CALL TO ARTISTS Schwitters’ Army 

FROM KOLAJ 27 Sinister Portent: Floyd Kuptana by Richard D. Mohr 

CALL TO ARTISTS Collage Artist Lab. Deadline January 5, 2020.  Details: http://kolajmagazine.com/content/content/calls-for-artists/call-to-artists-collage-artist-lab/

FROM THE ARTIST DIRECTORY Melissa Moffat, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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FROM KOLAJ 27

Sinister Portent

Floyd Kuptana is an Inuk artist from the Canadian Arctic who lives in Toronto, Ontario. In 2010, he added painting and, in 2012, collage to his ongoing, highly regarded body of work in stone. Richard D. Mohr introduces the Inuk artist’s work and discusses how sinister portent pervades his work. MORE

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@inuitartportal Floyd Kuptana artworks – On display in Gallery Arcturus as of March 2023 ******* N° 352 Untitled [aka Swimming dog aka Bucky, A06] steatite, bone, other stones 13 x 10 x 4.5 in Permanent Collection (on display since 2016) ******* This is the 6th in a series of 18 #publicinuitart works by Floyd Kuptana • NO. 347 - NO. 364 • Posted @withregram **** CHECK OUT THE MAP**** http://inuitartportal.blog ******************************* #artinuit #inuitart #indigenousart #indigenouspublicart #publicart #torontopublicart #torontoart #publictorontoart #galleryarcturus ****** About Gallery Arcturus: The Foundation for the Study of Objective Art The curator of the gallery is Deborah Harris. • #torontoartist #floydkuptana • #publicartgallery #publicindigenousart • #curator #artisticdirector #deborahharris • #torontogallery #contemporaryart #torontomuseum • #installationart #torontomuseums #hiddengems #sanctuaryforseeing #narrated • #guidedtour #visiteguidée #tronno #toronto (at Gallery Arcturus) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqJNSDYvVI5/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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@inuitartportal Floyd Kuptana artworks – On display in Gallery Arcturus as of March 2023 ******* N° 353 Untitled [Bear the Dog A07] steatite, metal 9 x 9 x 6 inches (on display since 2016) ******* This is the 7th in a series of 18 #publicinuitart works by Floyd Kuptana in the Permanent Collection of @galleryarcturus ** Access to Gallery Arcturus is free, as are all exhibitions! **

N° 347 - 364 **** CHECK OUT THE MAP**** http://inuitartportal.blog ******************************* #artinuit #inuitart #indigenousart #indigenouspublicart #publicart #torontopublicart #torontoart #publictorontoart #galleryarcturus ****** The Foundation for the Study of Objective Art The curator of the gallery is Deborah Harris. • Posted @withregram • #torontoartist #floydkuptana • #publicartgallery #publicindigenousart • #curator #artisticdirector #deborahharris • #torontogallery #contemporaryart #torontomuseum • #installationart #torontomuseums #hiddengems #sanctuaryforseeing • #narrated #guidedtour #visiteguidée #tronno #toronto (at Gallery Arcturus) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqOgT-nPbdQ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Cape Breton Red interviews notable Inuit artist Floyd Kuptana on http://www.thatchannel.com 2017-06j-13. From Wikipedia: Floyd Kuptana (born 1964) is an Inuit artist in Canada whose work is primarily stone carvings[1] as well as paintings and collage. Modern Inuit Art developed in the latter half of the 20th century as indigenous peoples of the Canadian Arctic and subarctic regions began living in fixed communities in the late 1940s.[2][3] As the number of artists increased and the Canadian government promoted stone carving[4] and work in other media, contemporary Inuit art grew in popularity in Canada and other countries. Kuptana was born in a settlement near the former DEW station at Cape Parry, Northwest Territories, Canada and later moved with his family to nearby Paulatuk. He began his career by helping cousins Francis and Abraham Angik Ruben to sand and polish their carvings, later working with sculptor and painter Bill Nasogaluak and as an apprentice to David Ruben Piqtoukun. He has produced his own work since leaving the apprenticeship in 1992, and now resides in Toronto. He is brother to carver Robert Kuptana. Floyd Kuptana’s sculptures of soapstone and other stone often feature shapes of both animal and human. Frequent imagery of transformation may be considered grotesque and include works of Sedna the Inuit goddess of the sea and marine animals. His work relates both to the shamanic beliefs and his own experiences. After coming in contact in the late 2000s with Gallery Arcturus, a public art museum and education centre in Toronto,[5] Kuptana began working with paint, depicting animals in bright colours on found materials such as wood and later on art board and canvas. Some of Kuptana’s pieces enter the market via commercial galleries[6] but most have been sold by the artist himself for private collections in Canada, the United States and other countries. Several works by Floyd Kuptana are in the permanent collection of Toronto public art museum Gallery Arcturus.[7] Contents [hide] 1 Exhibitions 2 See also 3 References 4 Sources 5 External links Exhibitions[edit] “Linked” at the Oceanographic Museum, Monaco, 29 November 2015 - 29 February 2016 “Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 3” travelling exhibit of The Museum of Arts and Design, New York City, 26 June - 21 October 2012 “sculpted from stone and spirit” at Gallery Arcturus, Toronto, 27 September - 12 November 2011 “In the Shadow of the Midnight Sun” at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, May 23 – August 17, 2008 “Inuit Sculpture Now” at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 30 June - 18 November 2007 by ThatChannel.com

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FROM KOLAJ 33

Remembering Floyd Kuptana (1964-2021)

Kolaj Magazine was saddened to learn that Inuit carver, painter and collagist Floyd Kuptana died in Toronto during the early hours of May 27, 2021. In Kolaj 27, Richard D. Mohr wrote, “He tweakingly appropriates white folks’ popular culture, their distinctive ideas (like universal surveillance–an inukshuk comes to life as a panoptic guard tower), their social forms (like gender bending–the head and legs of the Creature from the Black Lagoon bracket a one-piece bathing suit to form a gender sandwich), and their art movements.” MORE

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Floyd Kuptana artworks – On display as of March 2023 ******* N° 354 Untitled [Sedna’s hand, A08] steatite, metal 7 x 7 x 5 in Permanent Collection (on display since 2016) ******* This is the 8th in a series of 18 #publicinuitart works by Floyd Kuptana in the Permanent Collection of @galleryarcturus ** Access to Gallery Arcturus is free, as are all exhibitions! **

N° 347 - 364 **** CHECK OUT THE MAP**** http://inuitartportal.blog Posted @withregram • @inuitartportal ******************************* #artinuit #inuitart #indigenousart #indigenouspublicart #publicart #torontopublicart #torontoart #publictorontoart #galleryarcturus ****** The Foundation for the Study of Objective Art • #torontoartist #floydkuptana • #publicartgallery #publicindigenousart • #curator #artisticdirector #deborahharris • #torontogallery #contemporaryart #torontomuseum • #installationart #torontomuseums #hiddengems • #sanctuaryforseeing #narrated #guidedtour #visiteguidée #tronno #toronto (at Gallery Arcturus) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqWDJJrvRMz/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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THIS WEEK AT KOLAJ MAGAZINE

Puzzles, Cutouts, and a Call to Artists

FROM KOLAJ 33 Remembering Floyd Kuptana (1964-2021)

FROM THE ARTIST DIRECTORY The Puzzle Within: Giorgos Chatzigeorgiou | Rhodes, Dodecanese, Greece

COLLAGE COMMUNITIES Manila Collage Collective

CALL TO ARTISTS Politics in Collage Residency Deadline to apply: September 11, 2021.

COLLAGE ON VIEW Shape and Color: Hervé Tullet at Albright-Knox Northland in Buffalo, New York, USA

FROM KOLAJ 33 Cutout Festival in Kyiv, Ukraine

COLLAGE ON VIEW Cimarron National Works on Paper Exhibition at Gardiner Gallery at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA

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Floyd Kuptana - Self-portrait - 2007

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@inuitartportal Floyd Kuptana artworks – On display in Gallery Arcturus as of April 2023 ******* N° 355 Untitled [Bad Dream, A09] Cowbone, steatite 18 x 12.5 x 8 in. (on display since circa 2014) ******* This is the 9th in a series of 18 #publicinuitart works by Floyd Kuptana in the Permanent Collection of @galleryarcturus ** Access to the museum is free, as are all exhibitions! ** N° 347 - 364 • Posted @withregram • **** CHECK OUT THE MAP**** http://inuitartportal.blog ******************************* #artinuit #inuitart #indigenousart #indigenouspublicart #publicart #torontopublicart #torontoart #publictorontoart ****** The Foundation for the Study of Objective Art • #torontoartist #floydkuptana • #publicartgallery #publicindigenousart • #curator #artisticdirector #deborahharris • #torontogallery #contemporaryart #torontomuseum • #installationart #torontomuseums #hiddengems #sanctuaryforseeing • #narrated #guidedtour #visiteguidée #tronno #toronto https://www.instagram.com/p/Cqd4Re-vsH0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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kawtysie kakkee (left) and another weaver from uqqurmiut, the weaving studio in panniqtuuq, 1980

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John Kavin, Figure, 1973

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