This exhibition features a printmaking project which took place in Ivujivik, Nunavik (Arctic Quebec). Three artists from Nunavik – Qumaq Iyaituk, Mary Paningajak and Passa Mangiuk – collaborated with Montreal-based artist and printmaker, Lyne Bastien. In addition to individual chine-collé prints, each of the four artists created their own panel of twenty-eight linocuts, as well as a fifth panel which … Read More
Seattle Art Fair 2018
From August 2-5, Feheley Fine Arts participated for the first time at Seattle Art Fair. Exhibiting the best of modern and contemporary art, the fair showcased up to 100 galleries from Canada, the United States and overseas. Our booth exhibited both emerging and established artists from Cape Dorset and Baker Lake, each presenting their individual perspectives of life in the … Read More
“Papier” 17 Montreal
Over the weekend of April 22nd, Papier 17 was held at Montreal’s Arsenal, a contemporary work on paper fair. This year we highlighted work by Shuvinai Ashoona, Ningiukuluk Teevee and featured a special collaborative work by Harold Klunder and Kenojuak Ashevak. We also exhibited prints from the 1960s. We are especially proud the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts acquired two works by … Read More
“Art On Paper” New York 2017
For the first time, Feheley Fine Arts participated in the New York fair, Art on Paper. Right in downtown Manhattan’s Pier 36, the gallery displayed a wide range of Inuit art alongside great international galleries. New drawings by Ningeokuluk Teevee and Shuvinai Ashoona were accompanied with prints by Saimaiyu Akesuk, Pudlo Pudlat, Kenoujak Ashevak, and others. Following the success of … Read More
Kenojuak Ashevak: A Retrospective
On January 8, 2013, Kenojuak Ashevak passed away at the age of 85. Both nationally and internationally, she remains known and respected as one of the greatest Canadian artists of the 20th and 21st century. From her first drawings, done in the late 1950’s, to those completed shortly before her death, she has dazzled audiences with her joyous and brilliant … Read More
Another Successful Cape Dorset Annual Print Collection Release
The Hand of the Artist and the Cape Dorset Annual Print Collection are officially on the walls of Centre Space at Feheley Fine Arts. Some visitors arrived at 65 George St. as early as 6:30AM in hopes of getting first pick of the prints. As expected, some of the most prominent prints, such as Saimaiyu Akesuk‘s ‘Tender Moment,’ Ningeokuluk Teevee‘s … Read More
Cape Dorset Annual Print Collection at Feheley: “The Hand of the Artist”
Feheley Fine Arts is proud to announce the release of the Cape Dorset Annual Print Collection. A tradition since 1959, the collection includes lithographs, etchings and stonecuts from eleven different artists. This annual event receives a large amount of attention from art collectors because no more than fifty editions of each print are created; every year, the release is met with … Read More
Cross-Currents: Cape Dorset in the 1960s
(Digitized catalogue below) Foreword by Terry Ryan My recollections of Cape Dorset during the notable decade of the 1960s unlike the frenetic sixties here in the Southern Hemisphere, was of a place only slowly awakening from a long period of relative tranquility. Our Federal Government of that time had only recently shown an expressed interest in things north of 60 … Read More
Spirit of the Walrus
The walrus is among the most popular and recognizable subjects of Inuit art. In realistic depictions or mythological compositions, the walrus is a recurrent and powerful spirit. Walruses are massive mammals, larger than the polar bear, living on the ice across the eastern Canadian Arctic. The name, walrus, is from the Danish hvalros (sea cow). For centuries, the Inuit have … Read More
Material Matters: The Media of Inuit Art
(Digitized catalogue below) Introduction Artists worldwide grapple with the materials they use to translate ideas into physical form and the Inuit are no exception. Some begin with the flat surface of a page on which to build up an image from inspired marks, while others work to free their subject from an existing substance such as stone. The materials chosen … Read More