Please join Carleton University Art Gallery (CUAG) for a conversation between artists Robert Houle and Barry Ace about traditions of abstraction in contemporary Indigenous art practices, and in Houle’s work. Working from his knowledge of Anishinaabe conventions of abstraction embedded in such arts as quillwork, and from his research into Western art history, Robert Houle experimented with melding the aesthetics of Indigenous abstraction with elements of Western art.

Houle ultimately founded, in effect, a new genre of Indigenous abstraction, informed by complex currents of Aboriginal traditionalism, European realism, and American modernism, and shaped by autobiography, historical events, and contemporary politics.

This event is held in conjunction with "Continuum: Abstraction in Contemporary Indigenous Art," currently on view at CUAG.

Discount parking passes ($4.00 flat rate) will be available for sale at the tunnel entrance commencing at 6:45 pm. See the visiting page of CUAG’s website for directions and details of the new visitor parking in the P18 parkade.

Carleton University Art Gallery
St. Patrick's Building, Carleton University
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