Carl Beam - Original paintings, rare prints from House of the Spirit Bear

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Carl Beam and Ann Beam
	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.

The North American Iceberg, 1985 acrylic, photo-serigraph and graphite on Plexiglas, 213,6 x 374,1 cm National Gallery of Canada Photo: NGC	National Gallery of Canada Exhibition - Carl Beam 22 October 2010 – 16 January 2011 Galleries B102, B103 and B104 Starting in the 1970s, Carl Beam (1943–2005) was at the vanguard of a new and assertive art discourse that challenged the prevailing marginalization of contemporary Aboriginal art. Consisting of more than 50 of 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 2000s, this retrospective illuminates the artist’s investigations into the metaphysical aspects of Western and Indigenous culture, while powerfully illustrating the wide-ranging physicality of his work, evident in everything from his large-scale paintings, to his ceramics, constructions, and videotapes. Organized by the National Gallery of Canada
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. Click Here Canadian Council for the Arts Award Click Here Works also available to view at the Vancouver Art Gallery
Carl Beam - "The Whale of Our Being" SORRY COLLECTION NOW SOLD
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.
	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... with 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. " 23" x 30"

	Carl Beam original mixed media on arches paper The Whale of our Being series "LOPEZ"" 23" x 30"

	Carl Beam original mixed media on arches paper The Whale of our Being series "Jennifer Lopez Rules"" 23" x 30" Rolling Stone cover February 2001

	Carl Beam original mixed media on arches paper "The Whale of our Being "" 23" x 30" SORRY SOLD

	Carl Beam original mixed media on arches paper "The Pig and Joker"" 23" x 30"

	Carl Beam original mixed media on arches paper "Jolene Blalock October 2001" 23" x 30"

	Carl Beam original mixed media on arches paper "Bin Laden" Stamped "The Whale of our Being" un signed 23" x 30" SORRY SOLD

	Carl Beam original mixed media on arches paper " Lopez with Heart" 23" x 30" SORRY SOLD Rolling Stone February 2001

	Carl Beam original mixed media on arches paper "Quantum Mysteries" 23" x 30" Private Collection

	Carl Beam original mixed media on arches paper "Eagles and Science" 23" x 30" SORRY SOLD

ANN BEAM
	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" AVAILABLE FOR SALE PLEASE EMAIL OR CALL 604-708-4114
	2001 Ann Beam original mixed media on arches paper no title (2001) 23" x 30" AVAILABLE FOR SALE PLEASE EMAIL OR CALL 604-708-4114
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