Lauren Crazybull & Faye HeavyShield | Artist Talk
Live Streamed Event
Photo courtesy of Brandon Wynnychuk.
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Lauren Crazybull and Faye HeavyShield’s scheduled artist talk will be live-streamed as a virtual event on Saturday, March 14 at 1pm. The two artists will engage in a conversation about Crazybull's time as the 2019 Alberta Artist-in-Residence, as well as Crazybull’s solo exhibition in the Garage space at Latitude 53.
The work in "TSIMA KOHTOTSITAPIIHPA: Where are you from?" is the result of a year of travel and research across Treaty 6, 7 and 8 territories, in which Crazybull intertwined aspects from their own experience into larger narratives of Indigenous existence in Alberta.
Lauren Crazybull is an Edmonton based Blackfoot, Dene visual artist. Lauren's most recent work has looked to explore the tension and power within portraiture by examining the subtle relationship between themself and the subjects they paint. By centring the gaze, beauty and rich humanity of fellow Indigenous people in their recent work, Lauren means to ask poignant questions about how Indigenous identities can be represented, experienced, celebrated and understood through the particular gaze that artistry casts and requires. In 2019, Lauren was appointed as Alberta’s first Artist in Residence. In 2018, they were awarded the McLuhan house year long studio residency. Before fully immersing into the visual art world, Lauren worked for 4 years in radio and broadcasting focusing on Indigenous issues. Following that, they worked for 2 years as the art coordinator at a centre for at-risk youth. Through this work, they understand that their creative power is a poignant way to assert their own humanity, and advocate, in diverse and subtle ways, for the innate intellectual, spiritual, creative and political fortitude of Indigenous people.
Faye HeavyShield is a member of the Blackfoot Confederacy from the Kainai (Blood) Nation in the foothills of Southern Alberta. She is a fluent speaker of the Blackfoot language and studied at the Alberta College of Art and Design in Calgary, Alberta. The landscape of HeavyShield’s home community near Stand Off, Alberta is evident in her continuous use of natural materials and imagery found in her minimalist works. HeavyShield has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions across the Canada, including Nations in Urban Landscapes at the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver, BC, rock paper river at Gallery Connexion, Fredericton, NB, Into the Garden of Angels at The Power Plant in Toronto, ON and blood at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery. Her work is found in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, the McMichael Museum, Alberta Foundation of Art and the Glenbow Museum in Calgary, Heard Museum in Phoenix, AZ, MacKenzie Art Gallery in Regina, SK and the Kelowna Art Gallery, BC.