Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun

Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun: Unceded Territories is a major and timely review of the work of Yuxweluptun, spanning thirty years of his painterly and polemical practice. An artist of Cowichan and Okanagan descent, Yuxweluptun lives and works on unceded Coast Salish territories in Vancouver, British Columbia. He calls himself a history painter, a monumentalist, a modernist. Impassioned in his commitment to advance First Nations' rights, Yuxweluptun fuses art with political action.
This retrospective includes brilliant commentary from Michael Turner, Lucy Lippard, Marcia Crosby and Glenn Alteen, and a short story by Jimmie Durham. In an extensive dialogue, curators Karen Duffek and Tania Willard discuss the meaning of Yuxweluptun's practice and place it in the context of the First Nations' struggle for autonomy, justice and environmental preservation. In a searing and powerful artist's statement, Yuxweluptun himself explains the essence of his painting and the forces that drive his artistic and political life.