🔥 Vintage Modern Minimalist Pacific Northwest Salmon Fish Painting, Anne Vaasjo

Description: This is a fascinating and poignant Vintage Modern Minimalist Pacific Northwest Salmon Fish Painting, Acrylic on Artist Board, representing the lifecycle of a salmon fish in the Pacific Northwest region of Canada. This artwork is by acclaimed Canadian modernist painter and sculptor, Anne Vaasjo, and depicts a salmon fish in three states of its life cycle. At the bottom, a young salmon is depicted with a greyish green hue, above it is a red tinged salmon, elderly and on the brink of death, and above it is the skeleton of the fish above the waterline, which has reached the end of its mortality. This work is rendered in bold colors, and sharp contrast, with finely rendered and anatomically detailed fish. Hand signed, titled and dated on the verso: "Altered States. Anne Vaasjo '94." Additionally, there are several original gallery labels from Barton Leier Gallery, Victoria B.C. affixed to the verso. Approximately 11 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (including frame.) Actual visible artwork is approximately 8 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches. Good condition for age and storage, with some light scuffing and edge wear to the original period vintage frame. Vaasjo's artworks seldomly appear on the market, and this is a fine example of her work. Acquired in Los Angeles County, California. If you like what you see, I encourage you to make an Offer. Please check out my other listings for more wonderful and unique artworks! About the Artist: Anne Vaasjo in the Canadian ArcticIn 1989, Western Canadian artist Ann Vaasjo was awarded a grant from the Polar Continental Shelf to make sculptures in the Arctic near Resolute Bay. Its sculpture park piques the curiosity and amazes the scientific community present, the pilots of planes and helicopters as well as all those who come to visit them during the day under the blue sky as well as under the midnight sun, still present at the beginning of May 1989. In the Arctic, the gaze scans the horizon, looking for new landmarks. It is the wind that seems to have given birth to these new forms open to a polar universe. NameAnne VaasjoBiographyAnne Vaasjo (Canadian, b. 1950) was born in Edmonton, Alberta. She studied ceramics and painting at the Ontario College of Art in Toronto in 1981 and received an honours diploma from Emily Carr College of Art and Design in 1984. She attended the Banff Centre in 1985 and 2014. Vaasjo taught at Thompson Rivers University from 1987 to 1990, and at Emily Carr in 1991. After returning from Canada’s Arctic Awareness program in 1989, Vaasjo worked on environmental, personal, and political themes up to the present in a multitude of media, including drawing, sculpture, and installations. In 2004, Vaasjo adopted geography into her practice and began creating guerilla artworks that have been left in cities such as Venice and Istanbul, plus Saint Kitts and Nevis, in the Caribbean. In 2019, her research in plate tectonics led her to create a site-specific installation on the United Nations’ geopark bridge, which straddles the mid-Atlantic ridge in Iceland. She participated in group exhibitions in the Okanagan throughout the 1980s. In 1998, she had a solo exhibition at the Kelowna Art Gallery entitled Resurrection, consisting of a series of large-scale drawings dealing with death from a multicultural perspective.EducationCaribou College, Kamloops (1976-80) Ontario College of Art , Toronto (1980-1) Emily Carr College of Art , Vancouver (1981-2; 1983-4) A Hidden TreasureIn the winter of 1995, Anne Vaasjo, then a University of Victoria student was commissioned to design a sculptural project for Rose Manor. It would be displayed in the rotunda, which is a hexagonal area, open to the second floor at the junction of four wings in the heart of the building.Anne’s assessment of the area where her sculpture would be displayed revealed some discrepancies in the architectural design in contrast to that of the Manor. Specifically the ceiling, which was set apart form the rest of the ceiling by wood molding. Determined to find some answers, she crawled through a hatch in a linen cupboard to gain access to the attic and discovered, under a layer of insulation, a hexagon shaped stained glass skylight which was eight feet in diameter. Curiosity paid off and revealed a hidden treasure.Originally the window sat beneath a cupola which shed light on to the glass ceiling and throughout the two storey rotunda. At what point in time the cupola was removed and the stained glass entombed is unknown. An employee of 22 years reported that the cupola had not been in place during her term of employment and she retired from Rose Manor in October of 2003.The skylight consists of nine panels of stained and painted glass. The central panel is decorated with floral image and is ringed by the remaining eight sections. The simple, geometric design was typical of the late 1800’s, according to Ed Schaefer of Ed Schaefer Stained Glass Studio, who states that this original work was designed as part of 100 year old Rose Manor. Built as an architectural embellishment, Schaefer believes the skylight was created by Henry Bloomfield and Sons, Stained Glass of Vancouver, BC. Their work can also be seen in the British Columbia Legislative Buildings, the Young Building at Camosun College and in the Christ Church Cathedral in Victoria.In preparation for it’s unveiling at Rose Manor on April 29th, 1998, Schaefer and his assistant, Weaver Armstrong, both of Victoria, spent approximately 100 hours restoring all nine panels and completely releaded the skylight. Restored to its former glory, the stained glass skylight has once again been displayed in the rotunda for the daily enjoyment of residents, employees and visitors to Rose Manor.

Price: 475 USD

Location: Orange, California

End Time: 2024-08-25T20:29:39.000Z

Shipping Cost: 25 USD