Tasseor Tutsweetok, Lucy

Nunalla (Manitoba), 1934 - Arviat, Kivalliq (Nunavut), 2012

Notable exhibitions include: Sculpture/Inuit: Masterworks of the Canadian Arctic (1971–73), In the Shadow of the Sun: Contemporary Indian and Inuit Art in Canada (1989–91), and Indigena: Contemporary Native Perspectives in Canadian Art (1992), [ 1 ] and a solo exhibition, her first, at the Art Gallery of Ontario (2011). [ 2 ] In 1992, she completed a large sculpture for the Canadian Museum of Civilization. [ 2 ] Tasseor Tutsweetok's minimalist and semi-abstract approach to carving is accompanied by calculated drawings upon the stone's surface, she shares this approach with her contemporaries Andy Miki, John Panaruk, and Elizabeth Nutaluk. [ 3 ]

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