Book Signing with Robert Davidson
Sat, Apr 29
|Griffin Bay Bookstore
“Echoes of the Supernatural: The Graphic Art of Robert Davidson” contains over six decades of brilliant prints and paintings from the most prominent Northwest Coast artist of his generation.
Time & Location
Apr 29, 2023, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Griffin Bay Bookstore, 155 Spring St, Friday Harbor, WA 98250, USA
About the Event
ABOUT THE BOOK
Over six decades of brilliant prints and paintings from the most prominent Northwest Coast artist of his generation. Since leaving Haida Gwaii to study art in Vancouver—where he carved argillite with Bill Reid in a department store and hand-sold prints on the UBC campus—Guud sans glans, Robert Davidson has moved between two worlds. As a host of Potlatches, carver of masks and totem poles, and performer and teacher of traditional Haida songs and dances, he has been one of the driving forces in the resurgence of Haida culture in the aftermath of colonization. As an artist working in serigraphs, acrylic, wood, silver, and aluminum to preserve and breathe new life into Haida formline, he has become among the most respected, celebrated, and thrilling artists in the country, if not the world.
Echoes of the Supernatural is the first publication in over forty years to offer a comprehensive…