MSVU Art Gallery presents Ruth Cuthand: BACK TALK
Katie Belcher // January 9, 2012
MSVU Art Gallery presents:
Ruth Cuthand: BACK TALK (works 1983–2009)
Co-produced by the Mendel Art Gallery and TRIBE Inc., Saskatoon.
14 January through 11 March
www.msvuart.ca
As an artist, teacher and cultural activist, Ruth Cuthand continues to be an influential figure among Saskatchewan artists and First Nations artists across the country. Ruth Cuthand: Back Talk (works 1983–2009) is the first mid-career retrospective of the Saskatchewan Cree artist and the first to circulate outside Saskatchewan.
For more than 30 years, Ruth Cuthand has been challenging mainstream perspectives on colonialism and the relationships between “settlers” and Natives in a practice marked by political invective, humour, and a deliberate rawness of style.
The exhibition includes drawings, paintings, beadworks and video. Cuthand exposes the inequities that have plagued for centuries Canada’s relationship with its First Peoples, while proudly claiming her complex and self-determined aboriginal identity.
Organized and circulated by the Mendel Art Gallery, this project has been made possible in part through a contribution from the Saskatchewan Arts Board Culture on the Go program and a grant from the Museums Assistance Program, Department of Canadian Heritage. Funding through a multi-year operational grant from Canada Council for the Arts is also gratefully acknowledged.
Curated by Jen Budney.
For more information, contact Katie Belcher at 902-457-6291, katie.belcher@msvu.ca
MSVU Art Gallery
Mount Saint Vincent University, Seton Academic Centre, Ground Floor
166 Bedford Highway, Halifax, NS
www.msvuart.ca
902 457 6160
Free Admission
Tuesdays to Fridays 11am to 5pm; Saturdays, Sundays 1 to 5pm; closed Mondays
