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Alex Janvier in 2022

Three years ago, I wrote about the impact of seeing a 2017 retrospective of the art of Alex Janvier, who lived in Cold Lake, Alberta, and descended from the Dene Suline and the Saulteaux peoples. 

Janvier was one of the great artists, indigenous or Canadian.  He has just died, at the age of 89.  

This video, made two years ago, captures his gentle, but pointed truths.  It also shows a tiny fraction of his art, which is beautiful, but trust me, if you're standing in the same room as his paintings, it's like being overcome.  They are that amazing.