Anchorage Museum Displays True North

Anchorage Museum Of History And Art will run an exhibition True North: Contemporary Art in the Circumpolar North, on view during fall 2010.

In this exhibition curated by the Anchorage Museum, contemporary artists from the circumpolar north strip away utopian myths about northern life. This project brings together a comprehensive selection of indigenous and non-indigenous artists from Alaska, Canada, Scandinavia and Russia.

The 7,000-square-foot exhibition allows artists room to stretch with large-scale installations and multimedia work. Experience a new sound installation by Alaska composer John Luther Adams, an inflatable wishing well by Icelandic artist Hekla Dogg Jonsdottir, and an installation mimicking arctic flora using a 3-D printer by Canadian artist Tania Kitchell.

After it closes at the Anchorage Museum, the exhibition will travel to Canada and Scandinavia.

The picture shows Sarah Anne Johnson, Guy and Jess, photograph. -- www.anchoragemuseum.org