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Carl Beam (Canada, 1943-2005) Mixed Media on Paper

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Carl Beam (Canada, 1943-2005) Mixed Media on Paper
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This framed original work, a mixed media on paper, is signed Carl Beam (Canada, 1943-2005) on the lower right corner. This work features his polemical and characteristic incorporation of multiple photographic images onto a single picture plane. In this particular example, there is a grayscale image of a whaling station taken from the book "Men and Whales" (pp. 328) with the caption, "A right whale on the platform at the whaling station at Akutan in the Pribilof Islands." In dialogue with the photographic image off the whaling station are schematics images of the Voyager spacecraft. Through this unlikely juxtaposition of the two images, he is calling attention to the paradoxical relationship between scientific progress, violence, and nature. Born Card Edward Migwans, Card Beam made Canadian art history as the first artist of Native Ancestry (Ojibwe) to have his work purchased by the National Gallery of Canada as Contemporary Art. A major retrospective of his work, mounted by the National Gallery of Canada, was exhibited in 2010, recognizing Beam as one of Canada's most important artists. He worked in various photographic mediums, mixed media, oil, acrylic, spontaneously scripted text on canvas, works on paper, Plexiglas, stone, cement, wood, handmade ceramic pottery, and found objects, in addition to etching, lithography, and screen process. According to his wife, "He evolved his own unique techniques as needed in photo-etching and photo based painting, to name a few, and his passionate discourse on all things political and practical inspired many people." This piece measures 15" x 12" (38 cm x 31 cm).