Greg Hill

Alex Janvier Greg Hill

A canonical figure in Native American art history, Alex Janvier has maintained a 50-year artistic practice that fuses aboriginal traditions with modernist abstraction. Influenced by Kandinsky and Klee, his murals and works on paper, canvas and linen explore the Dene geo-cultural landscape of his northern Alberta home with a combination of Indigenous iconography and contemporary realities within a personal aesthetic that is universal in reach his works reference an ancient past, recent Indigenous history, and his own experience of colonization. Janviers synthesis of pictorialism and abstraction embodies a conceptual and