Art NOW series presents David Garneau

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Art NOW speaker series presents: David Garneau
Dark Chapters
12 pm | September 11, 2023
University Recital Hall
Free admission, everyone welcome

In this artist talk, David Garneau discusses his recent still life paintings in the context of his Métis heritage, curatorial and theoretical research. These paintings represent books, stones, string, hammers, food, insects, fish, hand drums, Métis sashes, and other common objects in metaphorical relationships that suggest Indigenous anxiety in the academy; tensions between traditional knowledge and contemporary survival; between book learning and learning from the land; Métis suspense between Indigenous difference and colonial complicity; and so on.

David Garneau is a Professor of Visual Arts at the University of Regina. He is a painter, curator and critical art writer who engages creative expressions of Indigenous contemporary ways of being. Garneau curated Kahwatsiretátie: The Contemporary Native Art Biennial (Montreal, 2020) with assistance from Faye Mullen and rudi aker; co-curated, with Kathleen Ash Milby, Transformer: Native Art in Light and Sound, National Museum of the American Indian, New York (2017); With Secrecy and Despatch, with Tess Allas, for the Campbelltown Art Centre, Sydney, Australia (2016); and Moving Forward, Never Forgetting, with Michelle LaVallee, at the Mackenzie Art Gallery (2015).
Garneau has given keynotes on issues such as: mis/appropriation; re/conciliation; public art; museum displays; and Indigenous contemporary art. His performance, Dear John, featuring the spirit of Louis Riel meeting with John A. Macdonald statues, was presented in Regina, Kingston, and Ottawa. David recently installed a large public art work, the Tawatina Bridge paintings, in Edmonton. His recent still life paintings, Dark Chapters, curated by Arin Fay, will tour Canada and be accompanied by a book in fall 2025.
This year, Garneau was awarded the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Art: Outstanding Achievement, and was inducted into the Royal Society of Canada.

Free admission, all are welcome to attend.
This talk is in collaboration with the Waking Death Collective and the Waking Death: Arts & Culture Event Series.


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