Jan Wade
Soul Power
- Publisher
- Information Office
- Initial publish date
- Feb 2022
- Category
- Canadian, Monographs
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781988860138
- Publish Date
- Feb 2022
- List Price
- $35
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Description
Jan Wade: Soul Power accompanies the exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery (July 10, 2021 to March 13, 2022), a survey of Vancouver artist Jan Wade’s rich body of work from the 1990s to the present. Jan Wade: Soul Power marks the first solo exhibition by a Black female artist in the 90-year history of the Gallery. The book both honours and documents her compelling but underrecognized practice, which reflects her lived experience as an African Canadian person of mixed cultural heritage.
Comprising mixed media assemblages, paintings, sculptural pieces and textiles made from found or ready-made objects and recycled materials, her art explores the places and practices of her ancestors alongside contemporary political concerns and social movements such as Black Lives Matter. The book serves as an important resource and record of her more than three decade career.
