Garry Sanipass
[ WABANAKI ARTIST: 2021, 2022 ]
1615230518 0914 192513020915190919 - $4200, 40” x 40”
Dancing in a Circle - 30" x 36” - SOLD
Selected by CollectionArtNB for their 2022/23 acquisition.
Garry Sanipass is an Aboriginal artist from the Bouctouche reserve. Born in November 1970 in New Brunswick, Canada.
He attended French elementary school in a small Acadian village known as Bouctouche, New Brunswick.
This need to communicate may have propelled his artistic interests. During his studies at the French school, he often dreamed of being an artist famous as one of his idols, Leonardo da Vinci. So, he spent a lot of time looking at and copying Renaissance Masters.
At the age of 19, Garry came across a book called "Andrew Wyeth: The Helga Pictures" and was inspired by the realism of the art and technique of Egg Tempura. Information on how to prepare this egg technique was sporadic and hard to come by in the 1980s.
When in solitude, Garry tends to travel indoors and seeks out shadows to help him communicate with the outside world. With this Egg Tempera technique it requires many layers, Garry's work is also symbolically on many levels, as there are secret codes and puzzles to be solved.