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Itee Pootoogook (1951-2014)
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Itee Pootoogook, Floe Edge, Winter
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Itee Pootoogook's career with the Kingnait Studio in Cape Dorset was like a skyrocket. The 2008 print collection was the first to include one of his prints, and he was quickly recognized as a major talent. Unfortunately, he died only six years later, at the height of his powers.
Floe Edge, Winter is a serigraph (a silkscreen), one of an edition of 50 made in 2009. A separate stencil is made for each color, the stencil is placed over the screen fabric, and ink is forced through the fabric onto the paper below. The process is then repeated for each color.
For his entire career, Itee was fascinated by the interplay of light and the landscape. The palette of this serigraph is quite bright. At the other end of the spectrum, Itee experimented with drawings on black paper that dramatically showed winter lighting. But there is a clear relationship between
Floe Edge, Winter and his winter light drawings, with their sharply delineated landscape features.
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