Reviewed by Kevin Griffin
The Marion Scott Gallery is opening its new space on South Granville with an exhibition of drawing depicted contemporary scenes of everyday life in Nunavut.
On view starting Saturday, the exhibition features 36 graphite and coloured pencil works of Itee Pootoogook, who lives in Cape Dorset.
By opening with exhibition that challenges traditional ideas of Inuit art, Marion Scott Gallery is rebranding itself in a number of ways. The gallery has been showcasing Inuit art in curated exhibitions since 1995 but will now be holding more of them on a regular basis. It’s part of the gallery’s repositioning of the work of artists of northern Canada from a retail setting into a contemporary art environment.
