Joane Cardinal-Schubert

CARDINAL-SCHUBERT ARTS

ON LINE ART EXHIBITION

selections of the Artist

scroll down and scroll across

THE COUNTERPANE SERIES
The Counterpane series relates to my time as a sick child. confined to bed for many days of each year until I was 10 or so, I learned to entertain myself by imagining that my bed-covers were roads and hills, and lakes, and rivers. Years later reading a Childs' Garden of Verse by Robert Louis Stevenson - I realized he understood. Here the Counterpane is depicted at the top of the picture plane and symbolizes the Gold Standard we exist under, balanced off by the standard of Napi. We, the horse messangers, journey into the future, protected by our ancestors, who remain with us.

Napi Gold Standard-Counterpane,
Joane Cardinal-Schubert (RCA)
Size: 72 x 55"
acrylic and gold leaf on canvas
available at Spirit Wrestler Gallery
derekn@spiritwrestler.com

Red Horse
Joane Cardinal-Schubert RCA
size: 36 x 48"
acrylic and gold leaf on canvas
at Spirit Wrestler Gallery
derekn@spiritwrestler.com

Begun....on a teaching workshop at
Keyano College, Fort McMurray, Alberta,
muskeg country...........
finished in Calgary's bright sunshine
....part of the counterpane series.

Tipi Flap,
Joane Cardinal-Schubert,
acrylic on canvas 6 x 8 feet,
available at Spirit Wrestler Gallery, Vancouver.
derekn@spiritwrestler.com

Billboard Dreams incorporating the counterpane series

Billboard of Dreams
Joane Cardinal-Schubert RCA
55 x 72 "
acrylic and goldleaf on canvas
available at Masters Gallery, Calgary
mailto:info@mastersgalleryltd.com

Click Here For E-Mail

Some History about the Artist

Joane Cardinal -Schubert is a multi-media visual and installation artist, writer, lecturer, free-lance curator and director of film and video whose work has been shown internationally and nationally and is included in many global art collections. The artist has a BFA from the University of Calgary with a double major in Printmaking and Painting as well as a three year certificate from the Alberta College of Art, Calgary. For many years she was a curator at the Nickle Arts Museum , The University of Calgary while practising as an artist from 5 to 2 in the AM. Beginning to exhibit internationally in 1981 in Sweden, her work was then included in solo and group exhibitions in London England, Tokyo, and Kyoto in Japan; Seoul, Korea; Paris, France; Essen, Stuttgart, and Cologne in Germany, many centres in North America. Australia, New Zealand and South America were also venus of travelling exhibitions which included her work. In 1993 she was awarded the Commemorative Medal of Canada for her contributions to the Arts. As an inducted member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Art in 1985, Cardinal-Schubert became the fourth woman in Alberta, Canada to receive such an honour . The artist maintains a studio and lives and works in Calgary.
The touring exhibition: Joane Cardinal-Schubert - Two Decades has just finished a National tour.

Joane Cardinal-Schubert in her Calgary studio, 1994. Photo: Cindy Delisle

This installation entitled The Lesson was created in 1989 in Montreal, PQ,
first exhibited at Articule gallery, it was reconstructed in over 20 venues
across Canada, the United States and Europe eventually evolving from a
static work to also include performance by members of the community
at the subsequent openings of the exhibition. It was included in the
Two Decades retrospective exhibition interacting with the viewers who
were invited to add names to the memory wall blackboard
( studio photo: John Dean, Calgary)

Life and Death on the Great Plains conte and oil on paper,
18 x 40 in.
Joane Cardinal-Schubert , private collection
I completed this painting in (circa ) 1978 I believe it best expresses my journey
as I plod through this life.... some tasks easier than others

Dream Catcher, acrylic on canvas, c.1994 approx. 4 x 5 ' a dream catcher catches all the bad dreams ....This is an attempt to expose environmental issues
The 'amphora' protected the information of the Dead Sea Scrolls....however these amphora of nuclear cooling towers will not do the same service.....private collection

Prairie Mask Series: 1998, Howl,
Joane Cardinal-Schubert
12 x 12 " canvas, mixed media, private collection ( Vancouver)

Joane Cardinal-Schubert: Two Decades

travelled across Canada for 3 years On exhibition were selections of over 26 years of the artists work 1969 - 1997. The artist travelled to every location installing the exhibition. from its opening at the Muttart Public Art Gallery in Calgary in October of 1997 to its closing in Ontario - January 2000 . The image above was the catalogue cover.....Borrowed Power: letters to emily, mixed media on rag paper approx. 48 " x 120" c 1993 ( collection of the artist)

Butterfly,

Joane Cardinal-Schubert, 1998,

acrylic on canvas 4 x 5'

After planting echinacea in my back yard I was struck at the

increase in butterflies.

private collection ( Vancouver)

exhibited Internationally this painting was from a personal experience at a Pow Wow I was invited to at the Plains Indian Cultural School, Calgary. It became somewhat of a self portrait of myself in an Elk dress. Years later I was given the name Elk Woman....somewhat prophetic....this painting speaks of the importance of cultural memory and teaching the next generation and the responsibilities that are all of ours. By understanding the past, and experiencing the present .....we will all have a part in determining what the future will be......private collection

Pow Wow Dream,

1992, acrylic on canvas,

121.92 cm x 182.88 cm.

private collection,presently included in travelling exhibition of Pow Wow images, Norman MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, 2000...................................

Examining my life as a boarding student at the convent beginning days after my 6th birthday. Ahhhhh..memories.....this became a statement of overlaying the historical past of my Grandmothers time with my own experience

Remembering our Grandmothers,

The Convent Series,

Joane Cardinal-Schubert, 4 x 4 ',

acrylic on canvas, 1999. private collection (Germany)

This was the first image I created in the convent series which is still ongoing...there are four buffalo, for the four directions, one is half above the water line....water can be dangerous as well as a life sustainer....it can cut steel....and also is the conveyor of pollutants....

Baptismal,

The Convent Series 1999,
Joane Cardinal-Schubert,

acrylic on canvas, 4' x 4',
private collection.

private collection (USA)

Moonlight Sonata, 1988, oil on canvas, 91.44 x 121.92 private collection painted at the Banff Centre Leighton Artist Colony Jolie studio......after escaping Calgary during the Olympics ......the image reflected the big sky I was missing and the ever reminder of the occupation of Buffalo in the landscape

Joane Cardinal-Schubert's art work can be found in many public collections nationally and internationally and is commercially available at Masters Gallery, Calgary; Spirit Wrestler, Vancouver; Assiniboine Gallery, Saskatoon/Regina; Bugera /Kmet Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta; Fran Willis Gallery, Victoria

The artist is available for speaking tours as well as workshops commissions and special projects .

Please contact by email for a publicity p ackage or other pertinent information.

cardinal@canuck.com

All information and visuals are copywritten.......

this web site designed by Justin Cardinal-Schubert

This web site is still under construction........write and give me your comments (smile)

Other Works

www.mastersgalleryltd.com

Links

This Web site design by Justin Cardinal-Schubert. For Custom designed web site contact doggard2@shaw.ca