Gallery ViewingDATES: November 6 - December 29, 2023 (M-F)
TIME: 10am - 5pm LOCATION: AICHO - 212 W. 2nd Street, Duluth, MN Free to the public |
Opening ReceptionDATE: Saturday, November 4, 2023
TIME: 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm LOCATION: AICHO - 212 W. 2nd Street, Duluth, MN Free to the public |
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About the ExhibitionAICHO Galleries is honored to bring together Gordon Coons (Lac Courte Oreilles) and Steven StandingCloud (Red Lake) in the group art exhibition “Mazinibii’igewininiwag: Two Woodland Artists.”
This art exhibition will explore the power of connection to nature, culture, spirituality, and Ojibwe realities (past and present) through Coons and StandingCloud’s strikingly bold and meaningful Anishinaabeg Woodland symbolic imagery. 
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About the Artists |
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Gordon CoonsGordon Coons is an enrolled member of the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe and Ottawa/Potawatomi from Michigan from his mother’s side. Gordon is a painter, printmaker, and fumage artist. Largely self-taught, he paints in the Ojibwa Woodland style and creates fumage, smoke art, by burning cedar. He embellishes his fumage pieces with 24-karat gold leaf to represent the Grandfather Sun. He also prints with linoleum blocks. Coons draws inspiration from his Anishinaabe heritage and his bright color palette comes from his natural surroundings in the Great Lakes region. “I also enjoy incorporating playfulness in my images, telling stories of relationships between Western and Native cultures, and the connection we have to our shared historical events,” says Coons. Gordon Coons exhibits nationally, and his work is in permanent collections across the country.
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Steven StandingCloudSteven StandingCloud is a digital artist and an enrolled member of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians currently living in Grand Portage, Minnesota. The artist believes that he has been offered a gift to create art to drive a contemporary vision of the Anishinaabe culture needed to express the pride and tradition of the Anishinaabe people.
In this show, his work expresses and represents Anishinaabe and Great Lakes art forms that connect the appreciative observer to Anishinaabe cultural identity and pride. They will feel and experience the cultural beauty that is a foundation of the Anishinaabe culture with use of prideful art forms and symbols. The artist has literally been designing contemporary visions of cultural pride and tradition since 1980 and using computer graphics since 2015 to create his images |
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