Continuing retrospective of work by Floyd Kuptana

Schedule

Sat, 25 Jan, 2025 at 12:00 pm to Fri, 31 Oct, 2025 at 05:30 pm

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Location

Gallery Arcturus | Toronto, ON

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See sculptures by the innovative carver throughout the gallery. Kuptana also worked in other media, which can be seen in various exhibits.
About this Event

A special thanks to JP Albert for his generous loan of work that led to this retrospective of Floyd Kuptana's career.

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The ongoing display of stone carvings throughout the gallery began as a memorial to master sculptor Floyd Kuptana after he passed away in May 2021.

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In 2022 the gallery staged a major exhibition of Kuptana's paintings, pastels and sculptures with the contribution of many pieces belonging to the artist's longtime collaborator and friend, Jean-Paul Albert. At the time curator deborah harris wrote: "It is still hard to imagine that [Floyd] is not here with us, working, laughing, growling. We miss him."

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Since then many of the sculptures have remained on display in multiple rooms throughout the four-floor gallery building, becoming part of the changing installations devised by harris. See below for a list of our individual spaces as well as our Eventbrite profile for current shows.

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Floyd Kuptana was born on February 14, 1964 at Cape Parry, Northwest Territories. The arctic landscape ran through him as did the concrete shoreline of Lake Ontario, and the city streets he walked on. He made his home where he was. He left behind an extraordinary wealth of creatures some of which you can see displayed at Gallery Arcturus, a regular destination of the artist during the latter part of his career.

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Here Kuptana engaged with other artists which often resulted in unusual collaborations or mutual challenges to work in new media including paint, pastel and collage. Much of this work is recorded in books published by the gallery and available for sale or free viewing on our websites.

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We invite you to spend time with the sculptures [as well as the books available in our libraries] and to meet Floyd through his work.

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Voyage through nine exhibit spaces from Tuesday to Saturday, 12 noon to 5:30pm.

Supported by the Foundation for the Study of Objective Art

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The Genesis Gallery:

Up North Gallery:

Ascending Gallery: mobiles, paintings, pastels

Collage Gallery: rotating works

The Library: Kuptana sculptures from the permanent collection + an indoor garden

The Drawing Room: works by D Hanequand, O Kassian, D Sapp

The Dark Room:

The Photographic Gallery:

The Studio: come to the lower level working space

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