Gigaemi Kukwits : Seasonal Wheel

Opening: Thursday, March 6th, 4-7pm
Artist in attendance

We are thrilled to present four new paintings by Gigaemi Kukwits which explore the seasonal wheel. Bird forms look out from a house front shape responding to the seasons of the year. Colour, vibrancy, gesture and tone reflect the changes; turning inward, venturing out, curious, and vibrating with the essence of life. The subjects of Kukwits’s paintings range from narrative to symbolic and to purely formal play, all unified by his intention to push the boundaries of expectation.

“It’s all physics that comes out of the universe, that is the basis of all my paintings and the house front represents that- the colours are atoms and molecules that our eyes perceive through..and with light – all coming to perceive living things. I use glyphs to represent the Milky Way and stars with certain colours representing time to complete this concept of the physical world.” – Gigaemi Kukwits

Gigaemi Kukwits (b.1945) is of Capilano, Tlingit, and Kwakwaka’wakw heritage. He holds a Musgamakw Dzawada’enuxw (Kwakwaka’wakw) seat in the Big House, his name deriving from his grandparents of the Dzawada’enuxw, and appointed by his uncle, Simon Baker of Capilano. At a young age, Kukwits was influenced by Elders who were trained artists. He also studied at the Vancouver School of Art (now the Emily Carr University of Art + Design), in 1967 to 1969.