Pride of place
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Staycation: The Art of Being Here features more than 100 Manitoba- related artworks from the Winnipeg Art Gallery-Qaumajuq collection, spanning the past 50 years. These pieces reveal how the places around us are layered with memory, story and lived experience.
Over the coming weeks, we’ll spotlight works from this eclectic exhibition, each one offering a new way of seeing home. Experience it in person and enjoy some staycation time at the gallery, on view until December.
Dee Barsy. My Four Grandmothers, 2017. Acrylic on gessoed birch panel. Collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery; Acquired with funds from the Winnipeg Rh Foundation Inc., 2017-531. Photo: Serhii Gumenyuk. Artwork sponsored by Vic and Marlene Janzen.
PHOTO: SERHII GUMENYUK
DEE BARSY. MY FOUR GRANDMOTHERS, 2017.
ACRYLIC ON GESSOED BIRCH PANEL. COLLECTION OF THE WINNIPEG ART GALLERY;
ACQUIRED WITH FUNDS FROM THE WINNIPEG RH FOUNDATION INC., 2017-531.
ARTWORK SPONSORED BY VIC AND MARLENE JANZEN.
My Four Grandmothers was commissioned for the 2017 WAG exhibition, INSURGENCE/RESURGENCE. Dee Barsy (Ojibwe) is a visual artist and a member of Skownan First Nation, Manitoba (Treaty 2). This vibrant painting depicts Barsy’s interconnected relationships between her four grandmothers, her adopted and biological kinships. Barsy uses contrasting and saturated colours to symbolize the diverse spirit of each of her grandmothers, shown in the four separated but intermingled entities. Within the reflection of these relationships, she reflects on ideas of grief, loss, death and reunification.
Gallery hours are 11 a.m.-9 p.m. on Wednesdays (free after 5 p.m.) and from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Thursday through Sunday (free on the second Sunday of every month).
