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CARL BEAM - 1943-2005
Carl Beam was born in M’Chigeeng (West Bay) on Manitoulin Island. Of
Ojibway heritage, the artist has exerted a strong influence on a whole
generation of Aboriginal artists and has been instrumental in the
development of the art of Canada’s First Nations.
He obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Victoria and
also did post-graduate work at the University of Alberta. His work,
executed in diverse media such as drawing, watercolour, etching,
non-silver photography, photo transfer, installation and ceramics, has
been exhibited throughout North America as well as in Italy, Denmark,
Germany and China. It is found in major Canadian and international
collections including the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of
Ontario, the Vancouver Art Gallery and the Albright-Knox Gallery in
Buffalo, N.Y.
In 2000, Carl Beam was inducted into the Royal Canadian Academy of the
Arts. Prior to his death in July 2005 he resided in M’Chigeeng. |
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Organized by the National Gallery of Canada
Consisting of more than 50 of Carl
Beam’s most remarkable works which have been selected from his early
career in the 1970s to the end of his production in the early 2000's
Exhibit was on
display April 8 through to May 29, 2011
Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia
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Touring schedule:
Smithsonian’s National
Museum of the American Indian in New York
OPENING OCTOBER 29, 2011
- Museum of
Anthropology, University of British
Columbia, Vancouver: April 7 – May 29, 2011
- Winnipeg
Art Gallery, Winnipeg: June 30 – September
11, 2011
- National
Museum of the American Indian, New York:
October 2011 – January 2012
- MacKenzie
Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan: September
– November 2012
- Thunder
Bay Art Gallery, Thunder Bay: January –
March 2013
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NOW AVAILABLE FOR SALE
Collection of over 145 original
works Circa 1993-1995. Many
with hand written quotations, poems and meanings.
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Carl Beam original work
"Arteries of the Neck and Head"
12" x 15.5"
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Carl Beam original work
"Unknown"
12" x 15.5"
signed and stamped $SOLD
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Carl Beam original work
"Judith Mohave"
12" x 15.5"
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"The Whale of Our Being" |
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Beam entered the new millennium with the body of work entitled The Whale
of Our Being, in this work "Beam examines the calamitous moral fallout
from what he perceives as a profound spiritual absence in contemporary
society, symbolized by a great whale of primordial proportions".
featuring large photo emulsion works on canvas, constructions, large
scale paper works, and ceramics. "Compared to earlier work, The Whale of
Our Being exhibits a positively baroque complexity, a dizzying
assortment of references, sometimes printed in overly saturated,
fluorescent colour. Mystery, for instance, is pink-Day-Glo-coloured
pink. The colour in Summa ranges from Day-Glo yellow-green to orange;
the images from Einstein and the Hubble Telescope, and astronaut, and
Sitting Bull to and image of the First Nations, and more besides."His
imagery had become vast and all inclusive, in The Whale of Our Being "He
re-examines the media construction of violence and infamy and the public
fascination with celebrity".Said Beam at a panel discussion for the
Beyond History exhibition in 1989, "If an artist has a legitimate
premise, there is nothing which isn't within their field of enquiry".
Carl Beam: The Whale of Our Being
Joan Murray
Carl Beam gained international recognition in two watershed exhibitions,
the National Gallery's Land, Spirit, Power and the Canadian Museum of
Civilization's Indigena. His practice is based on collage and
photographic imagery and is imbued with Native issues of land and
repatriation. The Whale of Our Being, a multitude of paintings and
prints (2001-04), makes the whale a metaphor for looking at the world.
"Under the umbrella of the whale are commodification and dollars and
killing, all things possible. The Whale of Our Being includes whatever
has happened to the whale, which in some kind of way happens to
everything else." Carl Beam 2001
The Whale of our Being - Selected Solo Exhibitions.
2002 The Whale of Our Being, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa
2001 The Whale of Our Being, De Leon White Gallery, Toronto
Carl Beam Collections:
National
Gallery of Canada Collection.
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Canadian Council for the Arts Award
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Works also available to view at the
Vancouver Art Gallery
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Each original sold will also come with
the full color catalog of Carl Beam "The Whale of our Being". from the
Robert McLaughlin Gallery (2002) 60 pp 8x8 in. softcover full color. |
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Carl Beam original mixed media on arches
paper The Whale of our Being
series
"The Joker"
Jennifer Aniton September 27. 2001
Rolling Stone cover "How a class clown became Hollywood's Hottest
Chick" while the world was in turmoil over the tragic 9/11 attacks
the media still pumped out celebrity gossip...
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Short Bull, a member of the Sioux
tribe, was born in about 1845. He became active in the Ghost Dance
movement and in 1890 visited Wovoka at Pyramid Lake, Nevada.
After the murder of Sitting Bull and the events that led up to Wounded
Knee Massacre Short Bull was imprisoned at Fort Sheridan, Illinois.
In 1891 Short Bull was released from custody and he was permitted to
join Buffalo Bill Cody and his Wild West Show. He remained for several
years and made several trips to Europe.
Short Bull died on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota in 1915. "
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Carl Beam original mixed media on arches
paper The Whale of our Being
series
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"LOPEZ""
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Carl Beam original mixed media on arches
paper The Whale of our Being
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"Jennifer Lopez Rules""
23" x 30"
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Rolling Stone cover February 2001 |
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Carl Beam original mixed media on arches
paper "The Whale of our Being ""
23" x 30"
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Carl Beam original mixed media on arches
paper "The Pig and Joker""
23" x 30"
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Carl Beam original mixed media on arches
paper "Jolene Blalock October
2001"
23" x 30"
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Carl Beam original mixed media on arches
paper "Bin Laden" Stamped "The
Whale of our Being"
un signed
23" x 30"
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Carl Beam original mixed media on arches
paper " Lopez with Heart"
23" x 30"
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Rolling Stone February 2001
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Carl Beam original mixed media on arches
paper "Quantum Mysteries"
23" x 30"
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Carl Beam original mixed media on arches
paper "Eagles and Science"
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ANN BEAM |
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2001 Ann Beam original mixed media on arches
paper A powerful work which
portrays true love and togetherness. Pictured with Carl and Ann Beam.
23" x 30"
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2001 Ann Beam original mixed media on arches
paper no title (2001)
23" x 30"
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