Carl Beam

In January and February of 2013, the Thunder Bay Art Gallery will host the National Gallery of Canada’s retrospective exhibition of works by artist Carl Beam (1943-2005), whose influence as a leading contemporary Aboriginal artist from the mid-1980s challenged the prevailing marginalization of contemporary Aboriginal art.

This exhibition features some of Beam’s most remarkable works, which have been selected from early in his career in the 1970s to the end of his production in the early 2000s. These include his large-scale paintings and assemblages, sculptures, ceramics, and video works.