Barkhouse began her professional career in the 1990s[4] and has since explored contemporary environmental and indigenous concerns, often incorporating animal imagery.[3]
One of Barkhouse's most significant works is Harvest (2009), a mixed media sculpture created for the Muhheakantuck in Focus exhibition at Wave Hill in the Bronx, NY. The sculpture portrays the names of indigenous groups from the Hudson Valley on porcelain objects arranged on a European-style table. A bronze coyote appears to pull at the tablecloth, giving the impression that the table service may topple to the ground.[5] The sculpture has been acquired by the National Gallery of Canada.[6]
Beaver sculpture, part of Echo. Joel Weeks Park, Toronto
A major early installation of Barkhouse's is Lichen (1998, McMichael Canadian Art Collection), a collaboration with Michael Belmore.[8] It includes several bronze sculptures of wolves, and a transit shelter with a poster of a raven.[9]
The Canadian Museum of History installed 'namaxsala (To Travel in a Boat Together) (2013), a bronze and copper sculpture of a wolf in a canoe, staring across the Ottawa River at Parliament Hill. The work was inspired by a story told to Belmore by her grandfather.[11]
Echo, installed in 2015 in Joel Weeks Park in Toronto, features three separate cast bronze sculptures. They include four squirrels worshiping an acorn, a beaver, and a fox.[4]
Selected exhibitions
Exposed: Native Women Photographers Group Show, Niroquois Gallery, Brantford, Ontario, 1991.[12]
Shades of Red, Pow Wow Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, 1991.[13]
Boreal Baroque, Mary Anne Barkhouse, 2009, The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Ontario; Espanade Art Gallery, Medicine Hat, Alberta.[15]
Close Encounters:The Next 400 Years, 2011, Group exhibition featuring 33 Indigenous artists from Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand (Aotearoa), Finland, and Brazil, Plug IN ICA, Winnipeg, Manitoba.[16]
What is Land, 2012, Tree Museum in Gravenhurst, Ontario (2012).[17]
Facing the Animal, 2012, Julie Andreyev, Bill Burns, Mary Anne Barkhouse, Vancouver, B.C.
Mary Anne Barkhouse: Le rêve aux loups (retrospective), 2017, Koffler Centre of the Arts, Toronto.[6] The show went on tour with additional works created for the Esker Foundation exhibition in Calgary, Alberta.[18]
Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists, 2019, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.
Ahlberg, Yohe J, and Teri Greeves. Hearts of Our People. Native Women Artists. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019.[21]
Hill, Greg A, Candice Hopkins, and Christine Lalonde. Sakahàn: International Indigenous Art. Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2013.[22]
References
↑ "Mary Anne Barkhouse". Aboriginal Curatorial Collective. Archived from the original on 17 August 2014. Retrieved 30 March 2014.
↑ Hill, Greg A.; Hopkins, Candice; Lalonde, Christine (2013). Sakahan: International Indigenous Art. Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada. p.155. ISBN978-0-88884-912-0.
↑ Hill, Lynn A; McMichael Canadian Art Collection (1995). AlterNative: contemporary photo compositions. Kleinburg, Ont.: McMichael Canadian Art Collection. ISBN9780777841280. OCLC35930990.
↑ Hill, Lynn A. (Lynn Ann), 1961- (1995). AlterNative: contemporary photo compositions. McMichael Canadian Art Collection. ISBN0777841282. OCLC35930990.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
↑ Ahlberg Yohe, Jill; Greeves, Teri (2019). Hearts of our people. Native women artists. Seattle: University of Washington Press. ISBN9780295745794. OCLC1105604814.
↑ Hill, Greg A; Hopkins, Candice; Lalonde, Christine; National Gallery of Canada (2013). Sakahàn: international indigenous art. Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada. ISBN9780888849120. OCLC822646597.
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