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Dancing Spirit Bear<\/em> by Floyd Kuptana
10″x8″; paper collage and acrylic paint on stretched canvas; 2015
Courtesy of the author.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

FROM KOLAJ 27<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Collages of Inuk Artist Floyd Kuptana<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Floyd Kuptana is an Inuk artist from the Canadian Arctic who lives in Toronto, Ontario. In 2010, he added painting and, in 2012, collage to his ongoing, highly regarded body of work in stone. Richard D. Mohr introduces the Inuk artist’s work and discusses how sinister portent pervades his work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This article appeared in<\/em> KOLAJ #27<\/a>. To see the entire issue, SUBSCRIBE<\/a> to<\/em> Kolaj Magazine or Get a Copy of the Issue<\/a>.<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Deadlock <\/em>by Floyd Kuptana
9″x11″; paper collage, acrylic paint, enamel, and graphite on scrap cardboard; 2012
Courtesy of the author.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

“Kuptana\u2019s spookiest use of collage is to cut out detailed facial features and make them appear to shine forth from within skulls which imprison them, and of these the most rattling have collaged eyes set on far less detailed acrylic grounds. The juxtaposition rouses textural pop and visual whiplash, while suspending the viewer over a bottomless crevasse of unease.”<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Can I Do This<\/em> by Floyd Kuptana
Courtesy of the artist.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

“He tweakingly appropriates white folks\u2019 popular culture, their distinctive ideas (like universal surveillance \u2014 an inukshuk comes to life as a panoptic guard tower), their social forms (like gender bending–the head and legs of the Creature from the Black Lagoon bracket a one-piece bathing suit to form a gender sandwich), and their art movements.”<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

To see the entire issue, SUBSCRIBE<\/a> to <\/em>Kolaj Magazine or Get a Copy of the Issue<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kuptana\u2019s collages are epicycles on collaging workshops hosted at Toronto\u2019s non-commercial Gallery Arcturus, where he collages with a small group of in-house artists. This group\u2019s work can regularly be seen at Arcturus\u2019 blog: www.dailyartblog.ca<\/a>. Kuptana\u2019s solo work can be accessed through Facebook<\/a> and a fair number of images are on the Internet. A 20-minute shamble, “Inuit Artist Floyd Kuptana,” can be found on YouTube\u2019s ThatChannel. He is not an artist who could write an artist\u2019s statement. But his frenetic, majestic, haunting collages, just on their own, sufficiently communicate the pleasures and terrors of the spirit world\u2019s arrival in everyday life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

FROM KOLAJ 27 The Collages of Inuk Artist Floyd Kuptana Floyd Kuptana is an Inuk artist from the Canadian Arctic who lives in Toronto, Ontario. In 2010, he added painting and, in 2012, collage to his ongoing, highly regarded body…<\/p>\n

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