Two new exhibitions at Hood
The Hood Museum of Art will
feature two new exhibitions focused on the Arctic from March 27 through May 20.
Four monumental habitat photographs will be on display in an installation
titled Subhankar Banerjee: Resource Wars in the American Arctic. Our Land:
Contemporary Art from the Arctic, will be the first major museum exhibition of
contemporary art from Canada's newest territory, Nunavut.
A new exhibition at the Hood Museum of Art features images of the Arctic,
including this photo of resting Caribou, by photographer Subhankar Banerjee.
(Photo by Subhankar Banerjee, Courtesy Hood Museum of Art)
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Five years ago, photographer Subhankar Banerjee spent almost
two years in the Arctic National Wildlife
Refuge, photographing this remote region in northeastern Alaska in all four
seasons.
In 2006, Banerjee returned to Alaska and photographed Teshekpuk Lake and its
surrounding wetlands and the Kasegaluk Lagoon in the northern Chukchi Sea.
Banerjee's passionate work for the preservation of Arctic natural sanctuaries
made him the first recipient of the Lannan Foundation's
Cultural Freedom Fellowship.
The Hood is exhibiting work from both of these trips through four
photographs depicting polar bear, Pacific brant and snow geese, and caribou. In
addition, the Hood is exhibiting a recent acquisition titled Caribou Migration
I (2002) that is now on view in the entrance lobby of the museum.
Owl, by Paulassie Pootoogook (1971). (Photo courtesy Hood Museum of
Art)
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On Friday, March 30 at 4:30 p.m. in the Arthur M. Loew Auditorium, Banerjee
will talk about his experiences photographing the American Arctic and
involvement in preservation and conservation issues related to the Arctic
National Wildlife Refuge and other areas. A reception will follow in Kim
Gallery.
On loan from the Peabody Essex
Museum in Salem, Mass., and the Government of Nunavut, Our Land:
Contemporary Art from the Arctic, features about 60 works from the Nunavut
Territorial collection of contemporary Inuit art. The exhibition is presented
by the Hood in recognition of International Polar
Year and in conjunction with the exhibition Thin Ice:
Inuit Traditions within a Changing Environment.
Opening events will be held on April 11 with remarks by the Honorable Ann
Meekitjuk Hanson, commissioner of Nunavut, and Neil LeBlanc, Canadian Consul
General in Boston, followed by a lecture by John Grimes, director of the Institute of American Indian Art in Santa
Fe and co-curator of the exhibition. A reception featuring wine and food from
Canada, sponsored by the Canadian Consulate General, will follow in Kim
Gallery.
Peter Irniq, artist and former commissioner of Nunavut, will create an
Inuksuk, or "likeness of a person," at Dartmouth in the days leading
up to the April 11 opening events. An Inuksuk is a stone figure that acts as a
beacon for travelers in Canada's north. Irniq will build the Inuksuk on the
lawn of McNutt Hall and it will remain on view throughout the spring.
This exhibition was organized by the Peabody Essex Museum and the Government
of Nunavut, Canada. Its presentation at the Hood was funded by the Philip
Fowler 1927 Memorial Fund and the William Chase Grant 1919 Memorial Fund. Our
Land is the result of a collaboration between the Peabody Essex Museum, the
Governments of Canada and Nunavut, and the Department of Culture,
Language, Elders, and Youth in Nunavut.
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