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Manasie Akpaliapik

Manasie Akpaliapik (Born 1955) is active/lives in Quebec, Northwest Territories, Nunavut / Canada.  Manasie Akpaliapik is known for Inuit carving and mixed media figure, genre, arctic wildlife and cultural symbolism.

Manasie Akpaliapik (1955)

An important Canadian sculptor, Manasie Akpaliapik was born in a hunting camp on northern Baffin Island, North West Territories (now Nunavut). In 1967 his family moved to Arctic Bay (a village on northern Baffin Island); since 1980 he's lived in Montreal, Quebec; Toronto, Ontario; and currently (2013) Ottawa, Ontario. His life and work are discussed in most of the recent books on Inuit art and Canadian art. His carvings have been featured in numerous landmark exhibitions and they're prized acquisitions in prominent public collections. His biography has been included in Canadian Who's Who since 1993.

Akpaliapik's mediums include fossilized whalebone*, stone, bone, antler, tusk, ivory, baleen and mixed mediums; his works are often composed of several pieces of different materials. His subjects are figures, faces, genre, shamans, symbolism, spirituality, mythology, allegory*, whimsy, fantasy, dreams, humor, arctic wildlife, and social comment   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 8735 characters.]  Artist bio

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