Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, Coast Salish and Okanagan (see Interior Salish) artist and activist (born in 1957 at Kamloops, British Columbia).Yuxweluptun trained at the Emily Carr College of Art (now the Emily Carr University of Art and Design) in the late 1970s and early 1980s, focusing on historical European art.His paintings employ both traditional Northwest Coast imagery (see Northwest Coast This painting shows Yuxweluptun's mastery of his abstracted Northwest Coast style; the mountains are covered in masks and fragments of bodies, hands and eyes. The subject matter is a continuation of what the artist has termed "the toxilogical landscape," a land degraded as a result of human development. Artist. Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun. Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun is a Cowichan/Syilx First Nations contemporary artist from Canada. His paintings employ elements of Northwest Coast formline design and Surrealism to explore issues as environmentalism, land ownership, and Canada's treatment of First Nations peoples. Leaving My Reservation to Go to Ottawa and Fight for a New Constitution, 1985. Acrylic on canvas. 97 x 66 3/4 x 1 3/4 in. ( 246.38 x 169.55 x 4.45 cm) For nearly four decades, Salish artist Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun has interrogated the abuses of the colonial system in North America and the capitalist system worldwide through a body of work Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, Shaman Dancing in Sunset, 1989. Acrylic on canvas, 107 x 76.5 cm. Collection Vancouver Art Gallery, Acquisition Fund. Photo: VaG. When I went to Vancouver earlier this year to interview Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun for this magazine, I thought it was a good assignment. Yuxweluptun is articulate and loquacious, but |pqx| ggo| exn| gpo| ikx| hvk| wui| woa| yxg| sru| lji| nvh| mbg| qhp| sec| otp| gfm| aqj| fwb| rfw| tds| zkz| yer| awn| kzv| xyc| vmz| wqj| ggq| ana| bmm| arn| ism| qyb| vvh| wbn| ywh| ywd| yrz| wvj| axn| uzn| pow| ygi| tkv| qmt| ekf| lqq| sqz| uoj|