Line & Volume: Drawings & Sculptures from the Brian P. Wilson Collection

The Marion Scott Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of drawings and sculptures from the collection of Brian P. Wilson. The exhibition, the gallery’s second installment to feature works from this important Vancouver collection, pays special attention to the different ways in which Inuit artists use line and contour as an expressive means to define sculptural volume in both two- and three-dimensional media. Included are works by Latcholassie Akesuk, Barnabus Arnasungaaq, Abraham Kingmiaqtuq, Josiah Nuilaalik, Jessie Oonark, Aoudla Pee, Lucy Qinnuayuak, Pauta Saila, Peter Sevoga, Aqjangajuk Shaa, Lucy Tasseor and George Tataniq.

The relationship between line or contour and volume is fundamental to the sculptural arts, as the measure of an active material presence in space. Inuit artists in the modern period have been highly sensitive to this relationship, using line both as a means to define and give life to inner volumes and as an expressive element on its own.