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Full Circle – Candace Lipischak

This is an ad for artist Candace Lipischak’s show. Front and centre is a painting by her, done on the rusting metal lid of an old canning jar. The painting is a bee, brightly striped in yellow and black, with white translucent wings. It is so close that we can see the body is fuzzy and it has delicate feelers. The canning ring, shiny and golden, provides a round “frame” for the bee. At the top of the poster, in black plain text, is the title of the show “FULL CIRCLE”, as well as the artist’s signature in a scrawl across a mint green rectangle. At the bottom of the poster black text declares “OPENS MARCH 4 2022, aanm.ca/online-exhibitions”. To the side are the logos for Arts AccessAbility Network Manitoba and Canada Council For The Arts.

BIO

Candace Lipischak is a multidisciplinary artist born and raised on Teaty 1 territory. They are inspired by nature and their French-Métis-Polish background. Her company Fat Daug (short for Father/Daughter) was launched in 2015, offering unique and organic antler jewelry, which can be found on her website online and is carried by WAG-Quamajuk in Winnipeg. Candace also has merchandise incorporating their heritage-inspired designs, such as Louis Riel.

Self-taught, their visual art work may be connected to outsider art often illustrating unconventional ideas and materials. By painting and incorporating many mediums such as antler, recycled tin and miscellaneous parts, Lipischak has found a way of telling a different story regarding environmental and social issues, consumerism, the land, truth and reconciliation, and nature’s powerful force.

Their work is part of various collections, private and corporate, such as TDS Law, Ceridian, as well as the Niverville Community Resource and Recreation Centre.

STATEMENT

On the 100-year-old farmstead where I reside in Otterburne, Manitoba, you’ll find countless discarded items such as rusted tin cans and antique sheet metal.

For the past six years my work has consisted of items that are no longer of use, in order to clean up the land while raising environmental awareness. Canning rings are no exception, as after a few years they are inefficient.

Like a true homesteader, I’ve been canning and preserving ever since I was taught by my matriarchs. Instead of heading to the landfill, I’ve created a series of mini-paintings using recycled antique tin and various canning rings. Inspired by the patina of the tin, you’ll find animals from across Manitoba. These works represent the rich Treaty land on which the tin was found, and how animals have needed to adapt to their ever-changing environment due to pollution and the exhaustion of natural resources.

These works are available for purchase, please contact the artist at fatdaug@hotmail.com to inquire.

A bright green tree frog grips the mottled rusty ground with dextrous white-tipped toes. Its head is raised and looking to the side inquisitively, with yellow eyes.
‘Lii groonouy’ (The Frog) Acrylics on antique tin, canning ring 3” 2022 $120 *sold*
An angry dark raven with shiny feathers highlighted in white looks towards the viewer angrily with beak open. Behind it a grey skey with white and grey clouds is visible.
‘Lii kornay’ (The Crow) Acrylics on antique tin, canning ring 3.5” 2022 $140 *sold*
This canning lid is rusty brown and turquoise. From the foreground, a red fox with a white breast and whiskers stares directly at us.
‘Lii rinaar’ (The Fox) Acrylics on antique tin, canning ring 3.5” 2022 $120 *sold*
A bright red ladybug sits atop a single white-petaled daisy in the foreground. The background is green and mottled brown of rust.
‘Lii bibitte’ (The Ladybug) Acrylics on antique tin, canning ring 3” 2022 $120 *sold*
An owl, white and mottled with dark brown/black, stares out of a round hole in treebark of the same colours. His eyes are intense and yellow.
‘L’yiboo daan l’aarbr’ (The Owl in the Tree) Acrylics on antique tin, canning ring 3.5” 2022 *sold*
This is a painting of a polar bear relaxing on a bed of snow/ice. Its head is resting on its front paws and its eyes, beady and black, look up and to the side, providing a wistful expression. The tones of the painting are cool, blue and white. The artist paints on the rusted tops of discarded canning rings.
‘L’oors cooshay’ (The Laying Bear) Acrylics on antique tin, canning ring 3” 2022 $140 *sold*
This painting is a bee, brightly striped in yellow and black, with white translucent wings. It is so close that we can see the body is fuzzy and it has delicate feelers. The canning ring, shiny and golden, provides a round “frame” for the bee.
‘Lii pchit aabay’ (The Little Bee) Acrylics on antique tin, canning ring 3.5” 2022 *sold*
Against a yellow sky, a yellow songbird with white and grey wings is painted in flight above a bush sporting bright red berries.
‘Lii wayzoo zhoon daan lii paabinaan’ (The Yellow Bird in the Cranberries) Acrylics on antique tin, canning ring 3” 2022 $120
Against the dark night sky, a shaggy white polar bear balances on a small patch of ice. It gazes up to the clouds with an inscrutable look.
‘L’oors di norr’ (The Polar Bear) Acrylics on antique tin, canning ring 3.5” 2022 $120
The head and breast of a mallard are in the foreground of this painting, the emerald green of the head contrasting brightly with the yellow beak. The background is blue water and the original green of the canning tin, with rust and some white font from the old label slightly visible.
‘Lii kanaar’ (The Duck) Acrylics on antique tin, canning ring 3.5” 2022 $120
Against a rusty background, a brown and white owl gives a jaunty wink, his open eye a bright yellow.
‘L’yiboo kii joo’ (The Playing Owl) Acrylics on antique tin, canning ring 3.5” 2022 $120 *sold*
A bison with dark brown shaggy fur and short sharp horns is painted in profile against a rusty background.
‘Lii biizoon’ (The Bison) Acrylics on antique tin, canning ring 3” 2022 *sold*
This is a painting of a fish, bright against a depth of azure water. It has a white belly, orange fins, and light green scales with dark stripes.
‘Lii pwasson’ (The Fish) Acrylics on antique tin, canning ring 3.5” 2022 $150
Painted on a rusted canning ring top, a fawn’s head and shoulders emerge into view from green foliage. The mottled brown of the deer’s coat is echoed in the mottled brown of the rusted metal backdrop.
‘Aen pchi shoovreu’ (The Fawn) Acrylics on antique tin, canning ring 3” 2022 $120 *sold*
In a turquoise sea, an adult whale looks lovingly towards a younger whale, who returns the loving gaze. Their noses almost touch.
‘Maamaan pi biibii beluga’ (Mother and Baby Beluga) Acrylics on antique tin, canning ring 3.5” 2022 $150
From a background of blue celestial sky, a white caribou in profile views us with a sidelong glance, sagely.
‘L’aariyaanl saakrii’ (The Sacred Moose) Acrylics on antique tin, canning ring 3” 2022 $150
A brown beaver with white moustache swims toward us in a swirl of blue water, dragging a stick in its mouth.
‘Lii kaastor daan rivyayr’ (The Beaver in the River) Acrylics on antique tin, canning ring 3.5” 2022 $150
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