We are thrilled to present new works by Lawrence Paul Yuweluptun exhibited publicly for the first time. The paintings and sculptures on view are a critical and impassioned melding of modernism, history, and Indigenous perspectives that records what the artist feels are the major issues facing Indigenous people today. Influential as both artist and activist, Yuxweluptun merges traditional iconography with representations of the environment and the history of colonization, resulting in his powerful, contemporary imagery.

On view are landscape and Ovoid paintings, alongside figurative Ovoid sculptures.This latter work creates a new visual language of conceptual art. The principal pinnacle concept is the Ovoid*. In this context the Ovoid is first liberated from the rules of Northwest Coast Design in the paintings, and then rebuilt again into figures. The Ovoid serves as a philosophy to think about such things as land claims, Aboriginal rights, self-determination and self-government, social conditions and environmentalism, Native reason and Native philosophy – all of these things synthesized together. Fundamentally, it is about colonial deconstruction and Aboriginal reconstruction.

Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun Lets’lo:tseltun / SCULPTURES & PAINTINGS

February 4th – March 25th, 2023

Press Release

First Nations, Contemporary native artist, Yuxweluptun, Indigenous painting, Native American Art

Install view of Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun's Painting & Sculptures exhibition, Macaulay & Co. Fine Art. February, 2023. Rachel Topham Photography

First Nations, Contemporary native artist, Yuxweluptun, Indigenous painting, Native American Art

Install view of Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun's Painting & Sculptures exhibition, Macaulay & Co. Fine Art. February, 2023. Rachel Topham Photography

First Nations, Contemporary native artist, Yuxweluptun, Indigenous painting, Native American Art

Install view of Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun's Painting & Sculptures exhibition, Macaulay & Co. Fine Art. February, 2023. Rachel Topham Photography

First Nations, Contemporary native artist, Yuxweluptun, Indigenous painting, Native American Art

Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, Along The Coastal Shores of The Salish Seas Traditional Native Territories, 2023, Acrylic on canvas, 73 x 97”. Byron Dauncey Photography

First Nations, Contemporary native artist, Yuxweluptun, Indigenous painting, Native American Art

Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, Spirit Walker, 2023, Acrylic on cedar, 24 x 9.5 x 13”, front view. Rachel Topham Photography

First Nations, Contemporary native artist, Yuxweluptun, Indigenous painting, Native American Art

Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, Spirit Walker, 2023, Acrylic on cedar, 24 x 9.5 x 13”, back view. Rachel Topham Photography

First Nations, Contemporary native artist, Yuxweluptun, Indigenous painting, Native American Art

Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, Neo Ovoids, 2023, Acrylic on canvas, 72 x 72”. Rachel Topham Photography

First Nations, Contemporary native artist, Yuxweluptun, Indigenous painting, Native American Art

Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, Our Ancestral Spirits Walk With Us, 2022, Acrylic on canvas, 72 x 54”. Byron Dauncey Photography

First Nations, Contemporary native artist, Yuxweluptun, Indigenous painting, Native American Art

Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, The Ovoid Kid, 2023, Acrylic on cedar, 30.5 x 9.5 x 8.5”. Byron Dauncey Photography

First Nations, Contemporary native artist, Yuxweluptun, Indigenous painting, Native American Art

Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, Floating Ovoids, 2023, Acrylic on canvas, 53 x 70”. Rachel Topham Photography

First Nations, Contemporary native artist, Yuxweluptun, Indigenous painting, Native American Art

Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, Ground Totem I, 2023, Acrylic on cedar, 9 x 6.5 x 2”, Unique. Rachel Topham Photography

First Nations, Contemporary native artist, Yuxweluptun, Indigenous painting, Native American Art

Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, Ground Totem II, 2023, Acrylic on cedar, 6.25 x 5.5 x 2”, Unique. Rachel Topham Photography

First Nations, Contemporary native artist, Yuxweluptun, Indigenous painting, Native American Art

Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, The Ovoid Pole, 2023, Acrylic on cedar, 56 x 12 x 9”. Rachel Topham Photography