David Ruben Piqtoukun
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David Ruben Piqtoukun (born 1950) is an Inuit artist from Paulatuk, Northwest Territories. His output includes sculpture and prints; the sculptural work is innovative in its use of mixed media. His materials and imagery bring together modern and traditional Inuit stylistic elements in a personal vision. An example of this is his work "The Passage of Time" (1999), which portrays a shaman in the form of a salmon moving through a hole in a hand. While shamanic imagery is common in much of Inuit art, the hand in this work is sheet metal, not a traditional material such as walrus ivory, caribou antler or soapstone. Ruben's brother, Abraham Apakark Anghik Ruben, is also a sculptor. Fellow Inuit artist Floyd Kuptana learned sculpting techniques as an apprentice to David Ruben.
Honours[]
- 2000 - appointed to the Sculptors' Society of Canada.
See also[]
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- Inuit Art
References[]
- Ada, Michigan. MASTERS OF THE ARCTIC: An Exhibition of Contemporary Inuit Masterworks. Amway Corporation, 1989
- Timeline of work; includes "The Passage of Time"
- Biography at Galerie Elca London Artist
- Profile at the Sculptors Society of Canada website
External links[]
Media related to David Ruben Piqtoukun at Wikimedia Commons
- Entry on the Union List of Artist Names
- Entry on the Artist Database of the Inuit Art Foundation
- Inuit printmakers
- Inuit sculptors
- 1950 births
- Inuit from the Northwest Territories
- Living people
- Inuvialuit people
- Artists from the Northwest Territories
- 20th-century Canadian sculptors
- 20th-century Canadian printmakers
- People from Inuvik
- Canadian sculptor stubs