Shuvinai AshoonaLife & Work

“She creates highly imaginative representations of inner visions and otherworldly projections, building rich environments drawn from her surroundings, the people she loves, and the movies she watches.”

– Nancy G. Campbell

Shuvinai is an artist of superlative talent, her work characterized by full and elaborate depictions of the natural landscape and social networks of the North. Shuvinai Ashoona: Life & Work celebrates the influences of an artist whose rich graphic imagery conveys an intricate and textured interior world. Her distinctive style situates her in a category apart from other contemporary artists. Using pencil, pen and ink, and markers to render dense, highly imaginative representations of inner visions, transcendental projections, and the exterior world, her art reflects the intersection of values between the traditional North and the contemporary South.

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Banner Image: Shuvinai Ashoona, Creatures, 2015. Collection of Suzanne Lamarre. Courtesy of Feheley Fine Arts, Toronto. © Dorset Fine Arts, Toronto.