SEMIOTIC INTRUSION 3

CARL BEAMSEMIOTIC INTRUSION 316 X 12 inchesEDITION OF 300LITHOGRAPHHand signed and numbered in pencil by the artist. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity included. Carl Beam R.C.A. (1943–2005), born Carl Edward Migwans, made Canadian art history as the first artist of Native Ancestry (Ojibwe), to have his work purchased by the National Gallery of Canada as Contemporary Art. A major retrospective of his work, mounted by the National Gallery of Canada, will be on exhibition starting October 22, 2010, thus recognizing Beam as one of Canada's most important artists. He worked in various photographic mediums, mixed media, oil, acrylic, spontaneously scripted text on canvas, works on paper, Plexiglas, stone, cement, wood, handmade ceramic pottery, and found objects, in addition to etching, lithography, and screen process. The direction of Carl Beam's visual style was firmly established by the late seventies. In 1979 Beam met and married his wife, Ann Beam. "In d