Watching Jerry Springer

After a solo exhibition at the Power Plant Gallery, Toronto, Annie Pootoogook turned preconceptions of Inuit art on their proverbial ears. Her meticulous, yet minimal, drawings capture glimpses of life in Cape Dorset. Some are inspired by intimate or emotionally charged moments from Pootoogook's own life, others show scenes from the everyday, like waiting in line for an ATM on a sidewalk of permafrost, or watching Jerry Springer (above). Her work can now be seen at the the documenta art festival in Kassel, Germany.

Read Pootoogook's profile atDorset Fine Arts.

From, the Beat Museum, San Francisco.

Oupeinpo

The most prominent Ou-X-Po group is undoubtedly the OuLiPo, but there are some other mediums that have a concentration of artists concerned with the "potential" (a term best described as the use of reusable constraints to create works). Although Guiseppe Acrimboldo predated to OuPienPo by about 4 centuries, his work using two obvious constraints (still life composition of vegitables / different visual relationships depending on direction) is a good example of OuPienPo painting.



Guiseppe Acrimboldo (1527-1593), Tête réversible avec une bassine de légumes