Reviewed by Lloyd Dykk
Tony Anguhalluq has a new showing of drawings from the area around Baker Lake, Nunavut, where he lives in the far North. It’s even more exciting than his first one, which was held last March at the Marion Scott Gallery.
This show was originally to include sculptures (the Churchill, Man-born Anguhalluq is also a carver) but political bureaucracy kept quarried stone from arriving at the Baker Lake collective in time, so only one sculpture came in and the show had to be retitled Tony Anguhalluq: Drawings.
When I raved about that first show, responses included, “My kid could do that,” according to one person. Uh-huh. Then I would get that kid to try.
Very few gifted adults could begin to equal the accomplishments of this 37-year-old adopted son of Inuit artists Luke Anguhadluq and Marion Tuu’luq. His first show at the Marion Scott sold out even before opening and the buyers included some knowing collectors and art patrons, including Esther and Samuel Sarick, who have already bought eight of the present work, which will join their other Anguhalluqs at the Art Gallery of Ontario.
