Mazinibii’igewininiwag: Two Woodland Artists, Opening Reception

AICHO Galleries is honored to bring together Gordon Coons (Lac Courte Oreilles) and Steven StandingCloud (Red Lake) in the group art exhibition “Mazinibii’igewininiwag: Two Woodland Artists.” This art exhibition runs between November 6 – December 29, 2023 (M-F 10am – 5pm). Explore the power of connection to nature, culture, spirituality, and Ojibwe realities (past and present) through Coons and StandingCloud’s strikingly bold and meaningful Anishinaabeg Woodland symbolic imagery. Gordon Coons is an enrolled member of the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe and Ottawa and Potawatomi from Michigan from his mother’s side. Gordon is a self-taught painter, printmaker, and fumage artist. He paints in the Ojibwa Woodland style and creates smoke art by burning cedar. Coons draws inspiration from his Anishinaabe heritage and his bright color palette comes from the natural Great Lakes region. “I also enjoy incorporating playfulness in my images, telling stories of relationships between Western and Native cultures, and the connection we have to our shared historical events,” says Coons. Web: www.gordoncoons.com Steven StandingCloud is a digital artist and an enrolled member of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians. The artist believes that he has been offered a gift to create art to drive a contemporary vision of the Anishinaabe culture needed to express the pride and tradition of the Anishinaabe people. His work expresses and represents Anishinaabe and Great Lakes artforms and conveys the cultural beauty foundational of Anishinaabe culture. The artist has been designing contemporary visions of cultural pride and tradition since 1980 and using computer graphics since 2015 to create his images.